Dance Quotes · Page 81

I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis…

— Gordon Lightfoot

“We sat down and I could feel my breathing quicken as the butterflies returned to dance in my stomach.”

— Miranda Dickinson

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

— Martha Graham

Just because I'm not dancing on a video every five seconds doesn't mean I'm not working.

— Tionne Watkins

“Choreographer Twyla Tharp, who directed the opera and dance scenes for the film Amadeus, has this to say about the film’s portrait…

— Mark McGuinness

I'm just a bad dancer.

— Sebastian Janikowski

Dear guy on the dance floor 'Raising the roof,' you're not raising your chances of getting laid.

— Anonymous

The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have…

— Babatunde Olatunji

I love song-and-dance films.

— Urmila Matondkar

I don't like cardio since I get bored but dancing is another form of cardio that works well for me.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think dancing is an emotional experience.

— Lucinda Childs

When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make…

— Moby

My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

I'm considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist.

— Carrie Ann Inaba

I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.

— Charice Pempengco

I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas!…

— Ethel Smyth

Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists…

— Fritjof Capra

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side…

— Sean O'Casey

Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are…

— Diplo

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

— Paul Valery

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

— Penelope Cruz

If I was strictly an artist, I'd have to learn to dance and get a shiny suit and stuff.

— J. J. Cale

Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand.…

— Gail Carson Levine

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

— Arna Bontemps

Reality's a bitch, and Ima dance wit her

— Lil Wayne

I was a dancer, not an actress.

— Cyd Charisse

What's the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device…

— Steve Wynn

I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

— Anonymous

Love like you'll never be hurt..

— William Watson Purkey

“The 'Dance of Love' is much more of a dialogue, one takes the lead and the other follows. One dictates a step…

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

“It was as if gravity was suspended. It was like dancing, I thought, although I had never danced in my whole life.…

— Per Petterson

I am striving to reach the stars as a prima ballerina, but my most important reason for wanting this is because of…

— Michaela DePrince

When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to…

— Jacob Artist

I am no dancer.

— Jamie Park

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write…

— Neil Gaiman

It makes me really happy that my dancing makes other people happy.

— Vinicius Junior

“I hope I redeemed myself with the whole dancing-sex comparison.” “I suppose there were a couple of notable similarities,” I observed, holding…

— Richelle Mead

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what…

— Gerard van der Leeuw