Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Gronkowski

Julian Edelman. He's the worst dancer.

Richard P. Feynman

My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

Ruben Blades

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

Ricki Lake

I am not a natural dancer.

Robert Caro

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Sandra Bullock

Nothing makes me happier than dancing. It transforms me. It's the only time I let out what is inside and I feel completely sensual and sexy and alive.

Rod Paige

I've done everything but tap dance across the table.

Robert Smith Surtees

Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife...

Sarah Zettel

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

Vince Young

Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.

Voltaire

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

William Stafford

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

William Butler Yeats

When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.

William Butler Yeats

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

William Butler Yeats

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

William Butler Yeats

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

Walter Savage Landor

Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

Walter Scott

O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?

Winston Churchill

What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

Saint Augustine

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

Wim Wenders

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

Zhang Ziyi

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

William Blake

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Rachel Stevens

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

Rachel Stevens

Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

Lincoln Kirstein

Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

Lincoln Kirstein

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Leslie Caron

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

Rudy Giuliani

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.