Ballroom Quotes · Page 2

I've known Chicago for 50 years; we used to play shows at the Avalon Ballroom.

— Steve Miller

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

— Jane Austen

Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music.

— Bob Hope

I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“What do you think I imagine making love to a vagina would be like? Maybe like having sex with a ballroom!”

— John Irving

Ballet is very stiff and I can do a triple timestep but who knows what I will be like at Ballroom or…

— John Whaite

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like,…

— Joey Fatone

The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet…

— Albert Murray

There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move…

— Emmitt Smith

The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round…

— Curt Sachs

“The girls here are so young. One of them twines her fingers into mine, her hand so small I could crush it.…

— Karen Kao

Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear…

— Michael Chabon

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used…

— Jay McShann

My first week at 'DWTS' was amazing! I definitely fangirled when I walked into the ballroom because I looked at all the…

— Laurie Hernandez

You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She…

— Kelly Link

It [Doral] is 800 acres in the middle of Miami. If you look at the ballroom, that was brand-new ballroom that didn't…

— Donald Trump

I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something…

— Merrell Fankhauser

“Originally built as the state ballroom for the British Viceroy, Ashoka Hall also had a wooden dance floor. It was ironic that…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom,…

— Nigel Lythgoe

Ballroom is a man's world. It's tough for women, particularly single women. But I've never expected life to be anything but tough.

— Shirley Ballas

There is so much hype around Blackpool - and I get it. Blackpool is like the Wembley of ballroom dancing.

— Chris McCausland

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Ballroom is its own entity, its own sport. And I have the most respect for what the pros do.

— Jordan Fisher

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I wrote Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

— Daniel Johns

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

— Ben Katchor

When I was in the Pussycat Dolls, I did study jazz and pop, but Latin and ballroom were not at all in…

— Ashley Roberts

Ball culture saved my life, and many people don't understand that. But ballroom is where I found chosen and proven family.

— Dominique Jackson

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ballroom, and it's totally different.

— Joanna Krupa

Yeah, I grew up doing ballet and jazz and tap, but I stopped at the age of 25, and I've never stepped…

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband... He and I can take a couple classes together. It…

— Jennifer Grey

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by…

— Joan Rivers

I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom...…

— Ridley Scott

“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at…

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding…

— Julia Ward Howe

I have so many ways I can explain the ballroom scene. But the essence of the ballroom scene would be elegance, extravagance,…

— Mj Rodriguez