Dance Quotes · Page 155

Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.

— Jay Carr

You want a great product, you want things that resonate with people and make them dance.

— Brad Parscale

Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

— Jon M. Chu

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

— e. e. cummings

Fight scenes are like learning a dance. You learn it move by move, and then you put it all together and it…

— Rachel Nichols

Peter Parker can't dance. He can flip and climb up walls and do backflips, but he definitely can't dance.

— Tom Holland

“Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and…

— Terry Goodkind

I love making miniatures, painting, writing, music and dance. These are the things I'm naturally good at. I'd like to think of…

— Richa Chadha

Twenty years from now we want people to come out and see us sing and dance in Las Vegas. Like Sammy Davis…

— Rob Pilatus

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps…

— Saul Williams

I think dance is amazing because what people don't realize is like when you dance your spirit and your soul get ignited.…

— Laurieann Gibson

“Dancing Towards Bethlehem If there is only enough time in the final minutes of the 20th century for one last dance I…

— Billy Collins

“Thank you,” she forced herself to say. “I would be most . . . relieved.” He led her to the floor, where…

— Tessa Dare

“Our mailman was a dance teacher at night & I would watch him sometimes to see if he would deliver mail differently…

— Brian Andreas

“He held her gaze as he lowered his head toward her. He didn't kiss her though--just leaned kissably close and asked, "Will…

— Melissa Marr

When somebody takes themselves seriously that's fodder for comedy. I think every musician goes through certain periods of their career where they're…

— Martin Kemp

What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change.

— Misty Copeland

I acted in a Punjabi serial 'Saude Dillan De' when I was eight years old and after that I was among the…

— Wamiqa Gabbi

I wake up, go for dance class, and do the same things that I used to do. I am very asocial. I…

— Disha Patani

I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.

— Frankie Manning

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote -…

— Margot Fonteyn

When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the…

— Twyla Tharp

Not everyone is a good dancer but you just have to enjoy doing it. Dance as if no one is watching.

— Sanya Malhotra

I was very excited and interested as a background dancer or as a theatre actor or when I was working on TV,…

— Sushant Singh Rajput

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

— Caroline Shaw

I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it…

— Yuan Yuan Tan

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers…

— Walt Whitman

I don't mind dancing the robot if the chemicals are ok, but beyond that the robot will not pull my strings.

— John Lydon

“She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but…

— L.J. Smith

Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

— Robert Gottlieb

I used to do semi-classical dance as a child; I did not have a choreographer, but my mother gave me a cassette…

— Shamna Kasim

“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.”

— Elizabeth Isaacs

“Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are…

— William Butler Yeats

My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.'

— Robert Rinder

I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

— Gene Kelly

Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

— David Bonderman

For a while every commercial was a dancing one. Remember when girls were dancing around salt and coffee cans?

— Cyd Charisse

We have to remain united to fight coronavirus. You can read, learn dance, cook, learn new things in the time available.

— Yuzvendra Chahal

Well, it has been my dream since I was very little to be able to sing, dance and act all in one…

— Megan Lee