Dancing Quotes
1698 quotes by 1171 authors
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves…
— Constanze Mozart
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Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Dancing is like breathing-missing a day doing either is very bad.
— Vera-Ellen
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Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing…
— Anna Pavlova
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He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
— John Ray
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Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do…
— Judith Jamison
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Dancing cheek to cheek.
— Irving Berlin
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My dancing days are past.
— Philip Massinger
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Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly…
— Noah Webster
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I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.
— Jody Watley
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals…
— Agnes de Mille
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To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.
— John Milton
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Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes.
— Ne-Yo
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Do you know what it is sir? Do you know what the Dance Dance Revolution is? It's not an actual revolution, so you don't have…
— Russell Peters
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You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it…
— Rex Stout
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THE HOT (AND SERIOUSLY COOL) ENERGY that comes from the musical gospel preached by the title character of FELA! feels as if it could stretch…
— Ben Brantley
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I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more…
— Gillian Flynn
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