The Dance Quotes

#1. 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 dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.

Jose Limon

#2. Every day I go out and climb, like a dancer who works on his dance. He probably has some goals, some pieces he would like to perform, but his main goal is to work on his dance. This is how he expresses himself. Both he and I are interested in the same thing. It's the dance that counts.

John Bachar

#3. I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

John Darnielle

#4. The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

August Bournonville

#5. So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance will seem easier ...

Deborah Bull

#6. 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

#7. God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.

Rajneesh

#8. Stamp: "Fine Maddy, Whatever. Take your little punk loser to the dance. I don't need you, Maddy. I can ask two dozen, three dozen chicks right now to go with me." Maddy: "Well then," I guess you better start stocking up on corsages.

Rusty Fischer

#9. So, I stood alone by the wall and watched the dance for a while. I would describe it to you, but I think it's the kind of thing where you have to be there or at least know the people. But then again, maybe you knew the same people when you went to high school dances, if you know what I mean.

Stephen Chbosky

#10. 'The Dance Scene' is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The motivation I have to give each dancer on that set.

Laurieann Gibson

#11. What the hell is she doing? Jake asked, his mouth slack as he watched her dance. The dance wasn't some seductive siren call. It was odd and slightly awkward and joyous.

Lexi Blake

#12. The dance community suddenly came alive with programs like 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'America's Best Dance Crew' and 'Dancing With The Stars.'

Nigel Lythgoe

#13. The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a stylized version of man's consciousness in action - the dance presents a stylized version of man's body in action.

Ayn Rand

#14. 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

#15. We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.

Alain LeRoy Locke

#16. The dance of the soul!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance ... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Ezra Pound

#18. The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

Edgar Degas

#19. I have seen galaxies die. I have watched atoms dance. But until I had the dark behind the eyes, I didn't know the death from the dance.

Terry Pratchett

#20. I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation
he should become identified with it.

Antony Tudor

#21. I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

Charles Bukowski

#22. The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.

Edmund Phelps

#23. So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never,
Because the dance with the devil might last you forever.

Immortal Technique

#24. I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Holly Lynn Payne

#25. I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.

Daryl Morey

#26. No man is his costume; it is only what he wears to the dance.

Heather K. O'Hara

#27. I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.

AraabMuzik

#28. Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!

Euripides

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

Cassandra Clare

#30. But what they had achieved apart on the dance floors of the world was nothing compared to what they achieved together.

Siri Mitchell

#31. To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe
to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it
is a wonder beyond words.

Joanna Macy

#32. The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

Eric Church

#33. 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

#34. His parents joined the dance of the butterflies.

Helga Zeiner

#35. That cyclone in Burma? That was just me doing the dance to that annoying ass song ...

Zach Braff

#36. The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

Curt Sachs

#37. The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

Maurice Bejart

#38. Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

Mia Wasikowska

#39. When you love yourself, feel the joy of your soul and see the dance of your spirit, you are really living your life.

Debasish Mridha

#40. I think that 'Flesh and Bone' represents the dance world very authentically. There's always this aspect of drama put on top of it, and it's showcasing the problems of the dance world, but I've had experiences in reality that were written into the show.

Sarah Hay

#41. The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.

Ben Mendelsohn

#42. Spirituality is the dance of the day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#44. Full engagement and full relinquishment in every moment is the dance of dances.

Ross Hostetter

#45. I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird.

Ridley Scott

#46. In the dance of life, pull down your own oxygen mask first, then take a deep breath and help everyone else. They'll thank you for it, believe me.

John C. Parkin

#47. My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

Rabindranath Tagore

#48. 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

#49. Delight in your sensuality, in the dance of your desires. Don't be ashamed of it.

Marty Rubin

#50. Inside me! I gasp, and all the muscles deep in my belly clench. My inner goddess is doing the dance of the seven veils.

E.L. James

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

Paula Abdul

#52. The courier of wolves the daughter the dance.
Hopeless.
Betrayal.
Forbidden.
Departure.

C.J. Redwine

#53. When Elizabeth was old and had a wrinkled face and black teeth, she was one day discovered practicing the dance step alone, to the sound of a fiddle, determined to keep up to the last the limberness and agility necessary to impress foreign ambassadors with her grace and youth.

William Shakespeare

#54. Death is a part of Life, they are dancing together the dance of infinity in front of the gates of Time. We can live our dreams as we are dreaming our future. Time is the Endless Consciousness

Grigoris Deoudis

#55. I felt I was standing on a stage many hours after the dance had ended, when the silence lay as heavily upon the empty theater as a blanket of snow.

Arthur Golden

#56. Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

Rumi

#57. And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

Ninette De Valois

#58. 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

#59. It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#60. It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.

Dan Fogelberg

#61. It's so much easier to point a finger than to take responsibility yourself, isn't it? Maybe it isn't so simple as this person's fault or that one. Maybe we make up the dance together, as we go along, and no one knows what the result will be.

Claire Cross

#62. The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Ruth St. Denis

#63. 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

#64. Catastrophe and exuberance are often partners in the dance of irony.

Jeff W. Horton

#65. Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Eckhart Tolle

#66. There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#67. Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.

George Leonard

#68. I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#69. Despite my youth I already suspected that it did no harm to keep my ears open. Just the opposite. In life, danger lies not in not knowing, but in revealing that you do: It is always good to have a sense of the music before the dance begins.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#70. Two things are always the same the dance and war.

Gertrude Stein

#71. There is no failure unless you quit. Only success not yet won.

~Haghuf, in Power of the Dance

Jaq D. Hawkins

#72. Was there a magical love-of-the-dance moment, when the muse Terpsichore called to us and we lifted our arms and spun at one with the divine music of the Universe? I think not. Although pride and obsession can feel like love, I guess.

Meg Howrey

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

Chris Brown

#74. Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance.

Gabrielle Roth

#75. Love is the dance of the spirit on a stage called heart with the songs of mind to satisfy our eternal desires to belong.

Debasish Mridha

#76. Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.

Pitigrilli

#77. There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

Julianne Hough

#78. Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.

Simon Sinek

#79. The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.

Gabrielle Roth

#80. The most exuberant expression of the body is in dance. Dance theater is wonderful. The dance becomes fluent sculpture. The body shapes the emptiness poignantly and majestically. The

John O'Donohue

#81. Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon intimidated us all because she walked in and was going to be the dance captain. She was a great star, but she loved that kind of work as his assistant.

Donna McKechnie

#82. The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

Ninette De Valois

#83. want to ask you a question." He nodded. "Take me to the dance next weekend." He tilted his head to the side and frowned. "Lilly, that was not in the form of a question. A question is a request that ends with a question mark. What you just said was a statement.

Amber L. Johnson

#84. Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

James Lovelock

#85. Richard's mind was filled with the flow and form of the dance with death, the way of a war wizard. He was lost in that dance he had come to know so well.

Terry Goodkind

#86. One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

Yoko Ono

#87. When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.

Matthew Kelly

#88. Amy let him lead her to the dance area. She gasped when he immediately tugged her body against his. Clearly Erik had not learned the dance rules taught at St. Francis High School. He didn't leave room for air, much less a holy presence.

Ana Blaze

#89. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

Isadora Duncan

#90. One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Maya Angelou

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

Jamie McGuire

#92. 'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.

Laurieann Gibson

#93. She looks down at the ground to hide her smile of pleasure and to affect modesty, but when the dance brings them together and she takes his hand, her eyes come up to him and they gaze at each other with absolute longing.

Philippa Gregory

#94. Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Graham

#95. That's stupid." I stopped to look at him. "why would you want everyone assuming something that isn't true?"
"Why should I care?"
"So you can ask someone you're interested in to go to the dance with you," I replied, not expecting his lack of concern.
"I just did.

Rebecca Donovan

#96. The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mata Hari

#97. You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.

Tom Petty

#98. There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.

Amanda Palmer

#99. Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.

Gabrielle Roth

#100. Lymond, released, flung his head back and, viewing his winnings, gave them solemn dispensation to descend for the space of the dance. He asked for and obtained some chalk, and set to marking his and Mat's property where the cross was most obvious and the whim most appreciated.

Dorothy Dunnett