Quotes About The Dance Floor

#1. When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way.

Wayne Dyer

#2. 'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.

Sean Paul

#3. I turned to watch the women on the dance floor, laughing and smiling and watching Travis and Megan vertically dry fucking.

Jamie McGuire

#4. I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.

Paula Abdul

#5. Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart was like them: contact with wealth had laid something over it that would not be wiped away.

Gustave Flaubert

#6. There's just one move a man needs to know in order to rock it on the dance floor."

"Yeah? What's the move?"

"STAG"

"What's stag?"

"The only one of Logan's crazy acronyms I live my life by-STAG. Stand there and grind.

Elle Kennedy

#7. It pulsed under the lights of the dance floor like a separate, disembodied heart.

Cassandra Clare

#8. Oh I bet you're sweet as under all that posh.'
And he looked at her in a way that left her in no doubt that he wasn't talking about the way she might move on the dance floor. If he mentioned honey pots she was going to pour her vodka shot over him. 'You'll never know,

Amy Andrews

#9. Jack watched Tara glide around the dance floor with the best man, a knot of jealousy threatening to strangle him. Just the phrase 'best man' raised his ire. Who had come up with that turn of phrase anyway?

Dawn M. Turner

#10. I'll have AB positive', I told Josh when he returned from the dance floor, 'What's it made of? Apples and Bananas?'
-Belle Goose

The Harvard Lampoon

#11. I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who'd go nuts on the dance floor, and people would gather around.

Daryl Hall

#12. I loved being around live rocking music, but I never knew what to do with myself socially at a show or club. I discovered that the dance floor was the perfect place to hide in plain sight.

Larry Howes

#13. How the fuck did somebody come out as trans, anyway? It wasn't about who you flirted with on the dance floor or walked down the aisle with. It was about who you fucking were. It wasn't putting on drag. It was God putting it on you without your consent.

Heidi Cullinan

#14. The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it's a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

Andy Warhol

#15. Standing on the fringes of life ... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

Stephen Chbosky

#16. I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.

Cherie Lunghi

#17. On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,' they still try to be in control.

Len Goodman

#18. Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#19. I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Simon Schama

#20. If we go now, there's no coming back. You're mine all night."
Her eyes flashed. "Promise?"
That was it.
Jack grabbed her hand and pulled her off the dance floor, toward the main entrance of the tent.

Julie James

#21. Even though the dance floor was filled with beauty and color enough to dazzle any eye, Odette had no desire to look away from Jorgen as she stepped toward him, clasped his hands, then let go as they stepped back.

Melanie Dickerson

#22. In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.

Ally Carter

#23. So Elizabeth, dare we take the dance floor again in hopes of repeating that splendid performance given by Lydia?

Elizabeth Eulberg

#24. I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

Miles Teller

#25. Writhing bodies fused as one on the dance floor, limbs tingling, lungs drunk on the lust-filled air.

Sidney Knight

#26. The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

Flavor Flav

#27. I just like to hop up on the dance floor and do my thing.

Kyle Massey

#28. Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

Joe Lovano

#29. I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

William Beckett

#30. Teasing, Evie. You started it, on the dance floor, grinding against other men like you've been starved of cock your whole life.

Jessica Smith

#31. I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.

Chris Brown

#32. The song was "I See the Light", another Tangled number. Aaron sang the male part of the duet, and Walter's friend Rose did a less-than-Mina soprano, but mostly the music fell away in the brilliant presence of the two young men on the dance floor.

Heidi Cullinan

#33. Kind of gay? I wanted to say. Do you have any notion how many homosexuals sweated their ass off on the dance floor to make this soaring bit of derivative trash possible? How many died of AIDS, OD'd, or went broke on the way to that girl from Texas cutting a deal...

Adam Haslett

#34. I love performing in the U.K. Everyone is always up for it and brings all their energy to the dance floor.

Tiesto

#35. I do really silly dancing. I love dancing, but I'm not cool when I dance. It's not about my moves, it's not about how cool I am, it's not about how slick I look on the dance floor, it's about having a great time.

Imogen Heap

#36. You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.

Dave Ramsey

#37. I hit the dance floor, wincing a little bit as the DJ looped feedback through the throbbing of a useless song about someone playing poker with his face or something.

Lili St. Crow

#38. How had this gorgeous guy flown under the radar? And a better question, why wasn't he out on the dance floor?

Kindle Alexander

#39. It's always been clear to me, as it was to Michel Thomas himself, that learning to speak a new language is like learning to swim or dance - you don't start with books or notes on swimming or dance. You get into the water, or on the dance floor, with a good coach, and get on with it.

Akshay Bakaya

#40. I certainly love a boogie and once the music starts I'm usually one of the first out there on the dance floor. Although I haven't had any formal dance training and something tells me I'm really going to notice the difference.

Ainsley Harriott

#41. To grasp your rhythm on the dance floor gives you free flowing.

Euginia Herlihy

#42. Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.

Jacob Artist

#43. Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#44. A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

Neil Patrick Harris

#45. I was on the dance floor but I couldn't hear the band.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#46. I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique way, be it dancing or dressing up. On the dance floor, I had my own unique steps and often had to lead my choreographer.

Mithun Chakraborty

#47. I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.

Neil Patrick Harris

#48. If you don't back away from my girl, I'll rip out your fucking throat. Right here on the dance floor.

Jamie McGuire

#49. He used to down an entire bottle of firewhisky, then run onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes, and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his -

J.K. Rowling

#50. mum's dress. mum loved big parties. she loved dressing up and champagne bubbles tickling her nose, and dancing with her arms above her head, shoes thrown to the edges of the dance floor, and shouting inane happy things at people.

Elizabeth Noble

#51. When it's a funky uptempo song, you're basically having the same kind of release you would have when you have sex, only it lasts longer. Whether you're playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you're in that moment.

Bonnie Raitt

#52. Happiness is like a genre of music that nearly everyone knows how to dance to. Happiness has a very simple tempo, catchy phrasing, and memorable lyrics. It's the song at the wedding that makes everyone excited to run to the dance floor.

T.K. Coleman

#53. I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people point and call me an attention seeker! I'm very aware of the way people can view me, but I'm very aware that I have to just enjoy my life.

Jessie J.

#54. Nash Hudson. Holy crap. I almost looked down to see if ice had anchored my feet to the floor, since hell had surely frozen over. Somehow I'd stepped off the dance floor and into some weird warp zone where irises swam with color and Nash Hudson smiled at me, and me alone.

Rachel Vincent

#55. He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor.

Deborah Cox

#56. A bell rings and Pavlov's dog has a fucking seizure on the dance floor.

Rachel Cohn

#57. Wow," Tate whispered. "They're fucking right on the dance floor. "
"I see that." There was an edge to my words.
Dave gave me a sideways grin. "Juan will cry at being stuck in the van. If he were here, he'd be screaming 'Authenticity's imperative!' and taking his pants down.

Jeaniene Frost

#58. We move to the dance floor. We face each other. She puts one hand on my shoulder and the other hand in mine. We start to dance. At some point Ema moves closer. She rests her head on my shoulder.
I barely move. I barely breath.
I just want this moment to last.

Harlan Coben

#59. Life doesn't end on the kitchen floor while there is the will to dance.

Patrick White

#60. I loved 'Rock Lobster.' I probably heard 'Rock Lobster' first at a party or dance. Then we would do the Rock Lobster - get down on the floor and do the whole dance. I thought that was really cool and exciting, that there was actually a band that had their own dance at that point.

Corin Tucker

#61. Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.

Shel Silverstein

#62. Jared led me to the floor where I suddenly remembered an important detail. "I don't know how to dance."
He didn't laugh at me. Taking my hand in his, he moved his other arm around my waist and leaned in close by my ear. "Then you better let me lead.

Lisa Kessler

#63. When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Wayne W. Dyer

#64. A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.

Donnie Burns

#65. Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#66. Actually I dance really well on the floor.

Oksana Baiul

#67. I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance.

Jennifer Granholm

#68. We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said, is eternal delight - and all life is to be lived in the spirit of rapt absorption in an arabesque of rhythms.

Alan W. Watts

#69. We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you.
And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn't often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire
club.

Charlaine Harris

#70. In terms of the organic feel and the love for noises, I definitely feel more connected to Four Tet and Fennesz, as any dance floor artist. I do like some dancey stuff like Martyn when I DJ, but I draw my inspiration from other things.

Apparat

#71. The tango, by 1914, had been officially declared immoral, and dancers went through its showy steps under threat of being dragged off the floor to jail unless light was visible between the partners and they refrained from doing any demoralizing dance steps, like "snake-wiggling" at the shoulders.

Christine Wiltz

#72. Our life's dance is not painted for us in footsteps on the floor. It's not laid out so we know where to place our next step. We simply had to judge which steps best fit the rhythms that we hear."

Paul Marshall

#73. A moment from another world! Imagine a reporter dictating an exclusive story, a lead story, sourced from the President of the United States, from a telephone just off the White House dance floor to the strains of Lester Lanin's dance band.

Ben Bradlee

#74. I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the body could do, and what would give me satisfaction - emotionally, dramatically and bodily. But I did not ever dream of establishing a technique. I still can't believe anything like that happened.

Martha Graham

#75. An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively
even if with much dread
in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.

Aberjhani

#76. Crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

Ethel Smyth

#77. I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

Debbie Allen

#78. Loneliness is my curse---our species' curse---it's the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers.

Douglas Coupland

#79. Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.

Vash Young

#80. Behind every dancer there's someone that broke her, a song that moved her, a moment that inspired her and a dance floor that healed her.

Hope Alcocer

#81. When autumn gusts blew in from the Rideau Lakes, parched brown leaves swirled and scattered around the sides of the neglected building, forming mounds like grave-markers, for ghosts of the past, who lingered on the dust-covered dance floor.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#82. I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.

Laurieann Gibson

#83. The true lady treats the whole world as her dance floor,

Sarah Zettel

#84. I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

Zachary Levi

#85. The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can really focus on the poetry.

Bianca C

#86. Who will dance on the floor in the round?

Michael Jackson

#87. 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 each with the floor.

Steve Paxton

#88. He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.

Carl Froch

#89. Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!

Danielle Steel

#90. Life is the most magnificent dance floor of love. Dance with love to feel the joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#91. Grab me, kiss me, waltz me, and love me,
I adore thee cherish thee absolutely love thee,
Come let's take to the floor 'Neath a chandelier of stars from above,
And dance me slowly to the edge of love.

Michelle Geaney

#92. Quite deliberately my friend drops a kettle on the floor. I tap-dance in front of closed doors. One by one the household emerges, looking as though they'd like to kill us both; but it's Christmas, so they can't.

Truman Capote

#93. Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge

Cormac McCarthy

#94. My brother, bless him, would dance you into the floor.

Kiersten White

#95. In a church, I am a saint. In a public place, I am a lady. In my own home, I am a devil ... My house is where I can do as I please, scream and yell and dance and fall on the floor if I like. I am myself when I am in my home.

Lupe Velez

#96. Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

Karen Russell

#97. The tango is a very interior dance. It's not an exterior - it's not flashy and all over the floor. It's a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs.

Robert Duvall

#98. Whatever it was, it was something you could dance to, or lie down on the floor, close your eyes, and weep to.

Kelly Keaton

#99. She had told the truth: she did not like to dance. Men assumed that a spinster wanted for excitement. Dried-up. They made a point of spinning her wildly across the floor. Once she had fallen, and thereafter she'd declined all invitations.

Meredith Duran

#100. If there were music and movements that embodied the wildness and recklessness and immortality of youth, they were here, on this dance floor. Doneval

Sarah J. Maas