Quotes About Dancing
Y.A.: Ça sert à quoi, écrire? M.D.: C'est à la fois se taire et parler. écrire. Ça veut dore aussi chanter quelquefois. Y.A.: Danser? M.D.: Ça compte aussi. C'est un état de l'individu, danser. J'ai beaucoup aimé danser. Y.A.: Pourquoi? M.D.: Je ne sais pas encore.
~ Marguerite Duras
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My sister, lover of the night, vampire of the Blood Coven, never before seen in anything but the color black, wants to be a pom-pom waving, football field-dancing cheerleader?
~ Mari Mancusi
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Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.
~ Marilynne Robinson
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The room, as she saw it, was a web of motion, a symphony of mischievou dancing particles quite like the smooth and placid notes of a fine concerto.
~ Mark Helprin
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Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes. Mum's the word. I suppose it's because his wife's dead, said Christiana, that he dances with a broom. I don't think so, said Boonya. He dances with a mop, too. Maybe he had a mistress. He did, but she had short hairs. I also got short-haired mops.
~ Mark Helprin
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And like Billy Bray, I go my way, and my left foot says "Glory," and my right foot says "Amen": in and out of Shadow Creek, upstream and down, exultant, in a daze, dancing, to the twin silver trumpets of praise
~ Annie Dillard
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The carioca is a role model and the ideal state of being is his. What is a carioca?. Simply put, he's a lovable scamp, a guy who somehow finds a way, always, to avoid legitimate toil in favor of the popular Rio diversions of going to the beach, flirting, making love, dancing, and hanging out. He is a man who survives on charm and what are called jetinhos, improvisational, amiable hustler/joker strategies to avoid work and keep doing what he's doing, which is basically nothing.
~ Anthony Bourdain
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And as for being dull," said the widow, "when people grow old they must be dull. Dancing can't go on for ever.
~ Anthony Trollope
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The reason for their original use of the trochaic tetrameter was that their poetry was satyric and more connected with dancing than it now is. As soon, however, as a spoken part came in, nature herself found the appropriate metre. The iambic, we know, is the most speakable of metres, as is shown by the fact that we very often fall into it in conversation, whereas we rarely talk hexameters, and only when we depart from the speaking tone of voice.
~ Aristotle
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On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.
~ Shirley Jackson
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though I'm afraid, Mrs. Dodsworth, that you'll find our house too dreadfully bookish. Beautiful people like you are superior to books. You ought never to read anything--you ought only to live. You ought to exist imperishably on some Grecian isle amid the wine- dark sea, dancing in the sunshine.
~ Sinclair Lewis
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Becky! Love! Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. What's wrong? Has labor started? Honestly. My family has no idea about contemporary urban street dance trends.
~ Sophie Kinsella
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Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy.
~ John Northbrooke
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There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring.
~ John Selden
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The candle in the wall holder guttered to darkness, only the one between them survived to cast dancing light across his feminine features.
~ John Varley
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A fit encomium for marital bliss," Beaumont said, putting down his knife and fork. "Dancing to a tune one neither likes nor understands, with a partner who thinks you a cadaver.
~ Eloisa James
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He was a Beatle who thought it was a good idea to promote his new album by dancing around with a man dragged up as the Queen, for fuck's sake.
~ Elton John
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
~ Elvis Costello
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I was watching while you're dancing away, our love got fractured in the echo and sway. How come everybody wants to be your friend? You know that it still hurts me just to say it.
~ Elvis Costello
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My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.
~ Emanuel Steward
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I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.
~ Emily Blunt
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Because the sky is high and lonely, and it makes me feel very alone, and that makes my heart dance, and then I feel stronger. But at the same time, there's this energy in the air; it's a time of waiting, before winter really sets in.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
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Because the sky is high and lonely, and it makes me feel very alone, and that makes my heart dance, and then I feel stronger. But at the same time, there's this energy in the air; it's a time of waiting, before winter really sets in.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
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When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies.
~ Barbara Comyns
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