Dancer Quotes · Page 16

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers…

— George Nolfi

There was never really a moment that I decided that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. It's always just felt like…

— Francesca Hayward

When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer…

— Vera Nazarian

A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly,…

— Laozi

I was a dancer and didn't ever think I could become a female wrestler, but here I am and doing it.

— Carmella

A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.

— Donnie Burns

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived…

— Martha Graham

I can't tell you how many times someone has written me and said, 'I became a doctor because of you' or 'I…

— Rudy Ruettiger

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors.…

— Micky Dolenz

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

— Bebe Neuwirth

[Film Loulou] is about Loulou, a ghost from the 1920s. She was a flapper and she was a dancer, had kind of…

— Boti Bliss

I want to be known as a delicate, Black dancer who does classical ballet.

— Michaela DePrince

I was a backup dancer at one point for a group that was on RCA.

— Omarion

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

— Paulo Coelho

The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement…

— Antony Tudor

Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was…

— Erin Morgenstern

The only dancing I did was at the discotheques. I was a very good disco dancer. I say that I learned disco…

— David H. Koch

I am a singer and dancer and I want to focus on this aspect of my personality.

— Shibani Dandekar

The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear,…

— Greta Gerwig

I am a Kathak dancer, and have got an advanced diploma in it.

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound…

— Justin Adams