Dances Quotes
214 quotes by 176 authors
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Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and…
— Steve Paxton
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If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want…
— Siobhan Davies
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We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and…
— Pope Pius XI
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No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
— Ry Cooder
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In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the…
— Curt Sachs
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If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all…
— Curt Sachs
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No sober person dances.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays…
— Unknown Author
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Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams,…
— Unknown Author
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I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy…
— Jose Limon
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The universe evolves in consciousness of itself and causes itself to be. We are just this blessed consciousness, nothing more and nothing less. We are…
— David Zindell
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Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating the other person's next move. If one of the dancers…
— James W. Pennebaker
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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune…
— Anthony de Mello
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Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.
— Deepak Chopra
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To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.
— J B Morton
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
— Alexander Pope
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The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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If I could say with words what my dances express, I wouldn’t have a reason to dance.
— Mary Wigman
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The Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and willow they soar…
— Mao Zedong
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may…
— Maya Angelou
Who Wrote These Dances Quotes
176 authors contributed a total of 214 Dances Quotes, led by these top contributors: