Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

Chad Johnson

But it would've been a square dance anyway, ... The heel-toe thing. I was going to go around the goal post, all that good stuff.

Michael Clarke

But that's why I had to. I couldn't finish anything, or communicate, or make decisions about what the dancers should do. I was at a very isolated place in my mind. I was always incredibly obsessive about my work, and I don't know how much I made that more extreme by drug use. But I'm glad not to be that person now.

Tom Jones

Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow.

Joni Mitchell

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels/ The dizzy dancing way you feel/ As every fairy tale comes real/ I've looked at love that way.

Negotiation seems like dancing the Tango, two steps forward, two steps back and suddenly three surprising steps forward,

Jimmy Buffett

Give me some words we can dance to,

Bill Cunningham

I don't understand what their message is. Dance with me into the future? What does it say?

Bebe Neuwirth

I'll always be a dancer first, ... Chicago.

Emmanuelle Beart

I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do... it's weird, non?

Greg Long

I had one spin around and swim right at me and I kind of did a dance over the top of him, ... I don't know exactly what took place because you can't really see once that water starts splashing around. After I got away from him, I recaptured him.

I can't even remember when I started. Since I could walk, I've been dancing.

I forgot how much fun dancing was. It reminded me of a middle school dance. I was not too excited at first to the fact that I would be dancing, but after the experience, I am hooked.

I didn't dance, but I twirled. I also did choreography as a kid. I was so excited to be part of the dance line.

Charlotte Church

I did that dance single as a one-off. It was a fun song - I really wanted to do it. But I have no idea what direction I am going in.

I don't know what to think about this, whether it's a serious problem or not. What it seems to me is just a continuation of the song and dance we're getting from Jackson County.

James Green

I am doing a rain dance on my desk as we speak.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Catherine Mary Stewart

I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

Antony Tudor

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

Antony Tudor

I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.

Brooke Langton

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Eckhart Tolle

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.

George Vecsey

Into La Bombonera danced the most agile, rhythmic, beautiful, sensuous people I have ever seen. And that was just the fans.

Elizabeth Meriwether

I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy.

FKA twigs

I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

Anne Lamott

Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.

Anne Lamott

And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.

Annie Leibovitz

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

D. H. Lawrence

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

Donna Mills

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

Donna Shalala

Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center.