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Quotes About Dance

Sak? - tavyje n?ra gyvyb?s ir jokio jud?sio. O mano siela ?m? šokti, mano širdis atgijo, ži?r?dama ? tavo veid?, gyvyb?s piln?, ir tavo lengvus judesius. Kadaise menininko rankos tavyje pasl?p? gyvyb?- judes? ir siel? - ir ji staiga atgijo ir ?m? šokti.
~ Jonas Mekas
European travelers to every continent witnessed people coming together to dance with wild abandon around a fire, synchronized to the beat of drums, often to the point of exhaustion. In Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, Barbara Ehrenreich describes how European explorers reacted to these dances: with disgust.
~ Jonathan Haidt
If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution.
~ Emma Goldman
La enfermedad no es catástrofe sino danza de la que podrían estar ya surgiendo nuevas construcciones de la sensibilidad.»
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
The advancing creatures danced momentarily like marionette dolls on a demonic puppeteer's string, then fell to their eternal positions of final decay. Serena
~ Eric A. Shelman
Ballet is merely a new rationalization of society's instinctive movement towards self-destruction. A dance of death for the Gadarene swine.
~ Eric Ambler
The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations,Silk stockings thrown aside, dance invitations:Oh how the ghost of you clings!These foolish thingsRemind me of you.
~ Eric Maschwitz
I'd been too intent on the room to hear her coming up the stairs. Leslie said that the capacity not to notice a traditional Dutch folk dancing band walk up behind you was not a survival characteristic in the complex, fast-paced world of the modern policing environment. I'd like to point out that I was trying to give directions to a slightly deaf tourist at the time, and anyway it was a Swedish dance troupe.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
But risking a fair fight – not so easy. That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of the 'don't hold me back' while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Morris being an old word for dance, by the way—it's amazing what you pick up on the job.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
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
I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.
~ Ben Katchor
He danced there like an overturned centipede.
~ Ben Okri
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
~ Ben Okri
ese señor Godoy es un alma de cántaro, y que no ha estudiado latín ni teología, pues todo su saber se reduce a tocar la guitarra y a conocer los veintidós modos de bailar la gavota. Parece que por su linda cara le han hecho, primer ministro. Así andan las cosas de España; luego, hambre y más hambre… todo tan caro… la fiebre amarilla asolando a Andalucía…
~ Benito Perez Galdos
What has helped me: There aren't a lot of girls who dance, who are as refined in dancing. That is what draws people to see me. The dance, and the prettiness.
~ Sahara Davenport
We've matured musically, as well as in the way we think. We've also developed a higher sense of responsibility. This has refined us and these developments are really being reflected in our music and our dance.
~ J-Hope
I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.
~ Liam Gallagher
I've been listening to a lot of dance, hip-hop, drum-and-bass, reggae, R&B - very rhythmical music.
~ Gary Moore
I hate exercise when it's a regime, but I love a bit of dance, just moving the whole body.
~ Darcey Bussell
I just listened to regular commercial music from Korea. I would just follow the choreographed dance routines. I didn't have any ambitions of pursuing rapping. I liked dancing, so I did that.
~ G-Dragon
I do not work out regularly, but I do dance so much and jump around so much on stage, and I do it every day, so I feel like that's my exercise.
~ Perfume Genius
The only time I've ever danced every day was during 'Dancing with the Stars' and in the two-week rehearsal for 'Dirty Dancing,' and that was only to do a particular dance.
~ Jennifer Grey
I would be a very sad person if I didn't have dance in my life. However I can, whatever I do, I just feel a lot of joy. Even if I am sad, if you take me to a rehearsal hall, I will automatically become happy.
~ Mouni Roy