Quotes About Ballroom Dancing

#1. My feelings have changed about ballroom dancing because when I am mad I can dance to blow some steam off. Dancing is fun because you can dance to tunes like 'Hit the Road Jack'.

David

#2. I go to the bathroom. All my life I have been an orphan and an only child. Now I come from a big noisy family who go ballroom dancing and live forever.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.

Susan Collins

#4. For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.

Fred Astaire

#5. It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you have a hot dog eating contest, call me.

Daymond John

#6. Just as ballroom dancing and pair skating command partners to work together seamlessly, in the sport of dressage, the rider performers an intricate pas de deux with his partner - a twelve-hundred-pound four-footed beast.

Elizabeth Letts

#7. They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.

Irmgard Keun

#8. When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

Bruno Tonioli

#9. Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

Heyneke Meyer

#10. Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

Joey McIntyre

#11. J: You will not believe what Mom is doing.
M: Ballroom dancing lessons? Hot-air balloon classes?

Kelly Bingham

#12. I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.

Christopher Gorham

#13. I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Ben Katchor

#14. [Reacher] knew people with houses. He had talked to them, with the same kind of detached interest he would talk to a person who kept snakes as pets or entered ballroom dancing competitions.

Lee Child

#15. I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball.

Joe Gibbs

#16. My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

Anton Du Beke

#17. I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband ... He and I can take a couple classes together. It would be a lot of fun!

Jennifer Grey

#18. I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.

Adam McKay

#19. My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

Baz Luhrmann

#20. Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

Anton Du Beke

#21. It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

Anton Du Beke

#22. Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

Nolan Bushnell

#23. The music for 'The Last Five Years' is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest.

Anna Kendrick

#24. Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.

Michelle Paver

#25. I'm lucky I've been able to spend a lot of time with my family.

James Fox

#26. This world was not designed to die; sin did that. But Jesus has beaten sin, and it gave Him the right to put on the imperishable as those verses describe. I believe the Resurrection is true. Jesus is alive.

Dee Henderson

#27. Bombay Sapphire and Gogol should never be mixed.

Dan Brown

#28. Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Maybe what was inside her did matter to him more than anything else. Tally

Scott Westerfeld

#29. Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

Donna Goddard

#30. Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

Robert A. Heinlein

#31. Disrespect is a symptom of weakness, of smallness, of an existential problem. By acting rude to me he's showing me what he really thinks of himself.

Patricia Cornwell

#32. For my sister's 50th birthday, I sent her a singing mammogram.

Steven Wright

#33. Thus, the entire rationale for overseas expansion was shaped in a domestic crucible. Economic need, Anglo-Saxon mission, and the progressive impulse joined together nicely to justify a more active role for government in promoting foreign expansion. To

Emily Rosenberg

#34. What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

Euripides

#35. Dancing?", ventured Portia. "I do so prefer dancing to suffering, don't you, Nerissa?"
"You speak as if one must choose one over another. For every gentleman who has turned you around a ballroom can attest, dancing and suffering can be partners in step.

Christopher Moore

#36. As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

John Jewel

#37. In entertainment, zombies are so played out. I have a gut sense that people are getting tired of apocalyptic scenarios.

Jamais Cascio

#38. You have Kim Jong Il, and you have his brother, Menta Lee Il.

David Letterman

#39. The girls here are so young. One of them twines her fingers into mine, her hand so small I could crush it. There are more of them in the ballroom, standing well outside the pools of light that demarcate the dancing from the sitting, the illusion from the reality.

Karen Kao

#40. I'm not imperceptible to masculine charm, but, well, you know, I can flirt.

Raquel Welch

#41. There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.

Emmitt Smith

#42. Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

Anton Du Beke