Dancing Quotes

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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice. — Martha Graham
Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in… — Nicholas Hope
To dance is to live ...to live is to dance. — Heidi Groskreutz
Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous… — William Prynne
Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live. — Wendy Buonaventura
I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space. — Ruth St. Denis
If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot. — Mae West
It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns. — Dodie Smith
Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun. — Marilyn vos Savant
Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. — John Milton
Dance until the earth dance. — Hilda Doolittle
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
Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only… — Mason Cooley
Tonight I feel like all of creation is asking us to dance. — Kathy Mattea
The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind. — Gerald Jonas
Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the… — G. Stanley Hall
Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability… — Joan Acocella
Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the… — Carl Sandburg
While we're young and beautiful, living free and easy. Here without a worry, dancing in our bare feet because when the summer's done we might… — Carrie Underwood
Let's be honest: Isn't a lot of what we call tap dancing really just nerves? — Jack Handey

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