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Quotes About Dance

We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
~ Bible
This morning. We got reports from down here that people were doing "stupid sensual things," were in a state of "uncontrollable frenzy," were wriggling like fish, doing something called the "Eagle Rock" and the "Sassy Bump"; were cutting a mean "Mooche," and "lusting after relevance.
~ Ishmael Reed
Sav sjaj što ga Bog svijetom propisa plavi o?i moje. Vezani su ?ilimi od sunca i sjenka. Ognjen miris ima vino života. Srce mi pod grlom bije. Za dug život i veliku radost! Putujte i brodite, ne ostanite željni burna mora, ni polja, ni gustih šuma! Milo je Bogu da vas vidi gdje vam je život pjesma i ples! Za žive i za one koji su mladi!
~ Ivo Andri?
Don't just walk through the flames. Get your Fred Astaire on and DANCE through them. Joy is around everywhere, even when the night falls hard.
~ J R Ward
Yeah, I was asleep, but it's okay. I was having my favorite dream. I have it all the time. I was dancing. I was beautiful. I was dancing.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Fucking hell. Did you guys plan that out? Yeah, and if you don't fight us--Hollywood bit down on his grape Tootsie-Pop--we'll do it again--only with dance moves this time. Spare me. Fine. Unless you agree to home it, we will rock the dance moves.. To prove the point, the moron linked his palms behind his head and started doing something obscene with his hips. Which was backed up by a series of, Uh-huh, uh-huh, ohhh, yeeeeeeaaaah, who's your daddy....
~ J.R. Ward
So if you had the chance . . . even if there was no music and no ballgown, no tuxedo or gala . . . when your true love asked you to dance? It was important to say yes.
~ J.R. Ward
the future was unknown and unknowable. So if you had the chance . . . even if there was no music and no ballgown, no tuxedo or gala . . . when your true love asked you to dance? It was important to say yes.
~ J.R. Ward
He was reminding her that the future was unknown and unknowable. So if you had the chance . . . even if there was no music and no ballgown, no tuxedo or gala . . . when your true love asked you to dance? It was important to say yes.
~ J.R. Ward
The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you don't hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like zen.~ Japhy
~ Jack Kerouac
If you can't boogie I know I'll show you how.
~ Jack Kerouac
One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportioned the top, with all that rumbling experience of the whole tree swaying beneath them making their dance, their every jiggle, a huge and communal and mysterious necessity dance, and so just floating up there in the void dancing the meaning of the tree.
~ Jack Kerouac
Chad is a slim blond boy with a strange witch-doctor face that goes with his interest in anthropology and prehistory Indians, His nose beaks softly and almost creamily under a golden flare of hair; he has the beauty and grace of a Western hotshot who's danced in roadhouses and played a little football. A quavering twang comes out when he speaks.
~ Jack Kerouac
The secret of this kind of climbing," said Japhy, "is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you never hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like Zen." Which it was. We didn't talk much now.
~ Jack Kerouac
There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!
~ Anna Chlumsky
I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious.
~ Mitski
I was 17 or 18 when 'The Twist' came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.
~ Chubby Checker
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.
~ Chubby Checker
I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.
~ Laurieann Gibson
I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.
~ Olivia Newton-John
Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
~ Anton du Beke
It's fun to solve a mystery, but it's even more fun to watch two people kind of dance around a relationship and be playful with each other.
~ James Tupper
Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.
~ Gene Kelly
Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.
~ Jeff Bridges