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Quotes About Dance

And the two heavenly bodies danced around their star...
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.
~ César Aira
A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.
~ Candace Bushnell
From the bow of the canoe she asked, Do you know a rain dance? First I need a virgin.
~ Carl Hiaasen
She said there was no tactful way for a naked person to cope with a runny nose, especially while dancing. Orly grudgingly agreed.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick, Youth must be foolish and mirthful and blind, Gaze not before and glance not behind, Mark not the shadow that darkens the way- Regret not the glitter of any lost day, But laugh with no reason except the red wine, For youth must be youthful and foolish and blind!
~ Tennessee Williams
Laura: I've never danced in my life! Jim: Come on, try! Laura: Oh, but I'd step on you! Jim: I'm not made out of glass.
~ Tennessee Williams
Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.
~ Terry Goodkind
I asked him what the amulet meant to him, what its meaning was. At first, I thought he wasn't going to answer. But then, in a haunting voice, he said that it represented the dance with death. I was horrified by that. He said the dance with death was the way of the War Wizard.
~ Terry Goodkind
War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death.
~ Terry Goodkind
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
It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers
~ Terry Pratchett
Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead
~ Terry Pratchett
The year is round! The wheel of the world must spin! That is why up here they dance the Dark Morris, to balance it. They welcome the winter because of the new summer deep inside it!
~ Terry Pratchett
And Granny Weatherwax said, "I was younger when I last danced with you. But I am old now. There will be no more dances for me.
~ Terry Pratchett
To acknowledge that which we cannot see, to give definition to that which we don't know, to create divine order out of chaos, is the religious dance.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
To acknowledge that which we cannot see, to give definition to that which we do not know, to create divine order out of chaos, is the religious dance.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
~ Inga Muscio
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
~ Angela Carter
I believe in the joyous power of an unscheduled dance break.
~ Sophia Bush
The Juan McLean is great.
~ Max Joseph
I've danced before, so I know how it feels to stand in front of judges and be critiqued.
~ Motsi Mabuse
Something happens when you feel that energy and excitement from the audience. And you do, I don't know, four pirouettes. You jump higher than you ever have. And it's just this really magical thing that happens in those moments.
~ Misty Copeland
I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and I honestly started performing for my family when I was around three. I would jump up on the coffee table and I would get in the closet and ask that they introduce me to come out, and from that point on, my mother stuck me in dance class and children's theater.
~ Erika Jayne