Dances Quotes

214 quotes by 176 authors

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from… — Pablo Neruda
I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your… — Sebastian Barry
My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasnâ€™t that far off. The theme appeared to be â€œCrepe… — Amanda Hocking
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same… — James A. Baldwin
Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there. — E. Lockhart
The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing. — Isabel Allende
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal… — Edgar Allan Poe
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here… — William Shakespeare
Joseph Beringer...dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts. 'I don't even wear skirts,'… — Maggie Stiefvater
Boys. Listen up. We are going out for a girlsâ€™ night, where there will be dancing.â€ Kami did an illustrative shimmy. Angela looked resigned. Jared… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched… — Arundhati Roy
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha… — Arthur Golden
He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to… — Megan Whalen Turner
Beck behaved himself, though it was really difficult, especially during the slow dances when they were so tantalizingly close. He savoured the feel of her… — Jana Oliver
He laughs, sucking his lip ring into his mouth. "I promise I'll go easy on you." A naughty feeling dances inside me. "What if I… — Jessica Sorensen
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. — Max Nordau
There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is… — Merce Cunningham
The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave. — Rita Mae Brown
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. — William Shakespeare

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