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Quotes About Dance

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.
~ Susan Wiggs
A dance to the music of time.
~ Anthony Powell
I like "As Long As You Love Me" and "Boyfriend" by Justin Bieber. It gets you moving - you just can't help it! And "Teach Me How to Dougie" gets Zendaya and I every time.
~ Bella Thorne
By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.
~ Christopher Walken
Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.
~ Darby Stanchfield
Big deal, so he scored. The last time I saw someone dance like that I had to pay her $20 and have my pants dry cleaned the next day.
~ Dennis Miller
Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.
~ Siobhan Davies
Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.
~ Sophie Ellis Bextor
I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.
~ Summer Glau
As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
~ Victor Cruz
Let's forget about time And dance our lives away
~ Madonna Ciccone
I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
~ Manika
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
~ Mark Twain
First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on. Then in another village they started a dancing-school; but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroo does; so the first prance they made the general public jumped in and pranced them out of town. Another time they tried to go at yellocution; but they didn't yellocute long till the audience got up and give them a solid good cussing, and made them skip out.
~ Mark Twain
In the century of jazz we are likely to overlook the emergence of the waltz as a hot and explosive human expression that broke through the formal feudal barriers of courtly and choral dance styles.
~ Marshall McLuhan
We are supported by a universe that has no interest in hurting us, only in teaching us to dance
~ Martha Beck
This ground itself needs to be properly accounted for by that for which it accounts, that is, by the causation through the supremely original matter – and that is the cause as causa sui. This is the right name for the god of philosophy. Man can neither pray nor sacrifice to this god. Before the causa sui, man can neither fall to his knees in awe nor can he play music and dance before this god.
~ Martin Heidegger
Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew that for each tremor of pleasure they would pay with an equal measure of pain. As though they knew that how far they went would be measured against how far they would be taken.
~ Arundhati Roy
Quand elles en eurent assez d'avoir attendu, les odeurs du dîner descendirent des rideaux et s'échappèrent par les fenêtres de l'hôtel pour aller danser sur la mer jusqu'au petit matin.
~ Arundhati Roy
Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it.
~ Arundhati Roy
Outside, the trees do their witchy dance.
~ August Kleinzahler
Oui, je suis Mademoiselle Lycanthrope. Volete camminare con me signore, per le vie della Parigi notturna? E' una notte di luna quasi piena e noi quasi ci ameremo. Nessun urlo o ululato o macchia di sangue per strada. Solo una vaga malinconia. La luna, la luna, è una severa maestra. Anche stasera non uccidiamo. Balliamo. Domani forse, qualcuno ci ucciderà.
~ Stefano Benni
Io credo che esisteranno sempre l'intelligenza, la voglia di libertà, l'eros e le sale da ballo - ha detto il nonno - ma la parola speranza non mi sento più di pronunciarla
~ Stefano Benni
This may not be much, but it is something. Tomorrow we die; but at least we danced in silver shoes.
~ Stella Gibbons