Dance Quotes · Page 180

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

— Galina Ulanova

Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like,…

— Blanca Li

Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance…

— Tatiana Maslany

Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.

— Gabrielle Roth

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

— C. L. R. James

I want the ballet world to be given the respect that it deserves and to be seen by more people - for…

— Misty Copeland

I absolutely love ballet. It gives me a chance to act like a princess in a fairy-tale world.

— Michaela DePrince

Revels, dances, masques, and merry hours Forerun fair love, strewing her way with flowers.

— Anonymous

If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die…

— Vivian Balakrishnan

All people share the same desire to be treated equally. We all go through similar emotional journeys from love to hate, rejection…

— Dana Tai Soon Burgess

“He raised his hands and, guided by a redeeming impulse of truth-like a conductor leading his orchestra in a grand symphony-finally set…

— José Rodrigues dos Santos

My background is in dance, but as soon as I found acting and realized that I could entertain people, not just with…

— Lana Condor

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to…

— Merce Cunningham

Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music,…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the…

— Guy Maddin

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of…

— George Balanchine

Even acting in 'Master of None' or 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody,' when I was a kid, I never ever thought that…

— Naomi Ackie

I wake up every morning and dance for 15 minutes, and it's the only way I can get out of bed.

— Taylor Russell

I'm a 15-time national champion, so for me I had a long, competitive dancing career before joining 'Dancing With the Stars.'

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.

— Khalil Gibran

I have long been a fan of Holy Ghost! and think they've got the best dance grooves around.

— Max Joseph

Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination...

— Doris Humphrey

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our…

— Gene Kelly

“Dance with me, Annalise," Raphael whispers. "Dance with me, and see what it feels like to dance without rules, without boundaries. From…

— Melody Grace

When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

— Rumi

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

— Al Sharpton

“This," he said, "is a dance. We should savor every step. Think of all we have accomplished already, my friend, and here…

— Katy Towell

“Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?" "You'll endanger the school.”

— Richelle Mead

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

— Lindsay Lohan

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

— Jed S. Rakoff

I come from a background where bigger women are appreciated. After all, you can't belly dance with a flat stomach, so my…

— Laila Rouass

I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me…

— Camren Bicondova

“Doing the right thing causes us to stand taller, dance more often, and step into life with more confidence.”

— Patsy Clairmont

Dancing is one of the best ways of expressing yourself, and I definitely use it to release emotion.

— Alesha Dixon

When I make music, I always try to do more than make a song that makes people dance and have fun. I…

— Anitta

It's impossible to make dancing really effective on TV. The screen is too small, and the cameras can't move fast enough to…

— Cyd Charisse

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all…

— Archilochus

You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't…

— Joseph Campbell

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance…

— Maya Angelou

This new project, 'Excursions,' has been a trip down my own memory lane before 'Minecraft,' when I aspired to create music I…

— C418