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Quotes About Dance

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
~ William Shakespeare
What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May: he will carry't, he will carry't; 'tis in his buttons; he will carry't.
~ William Shakespeare
Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
~ William Wordsworth
Fill your tall goblets with white wine and red, And sing brave songs of gallant love and true, Wearing soft robes of emerald and blue, And dance, as I your dances oft have led, And laugh, as I have often laughed with you - And be most merry - after I am dead.
~ Winifred Holtby
I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.
~ Winston Graham
I let myself be invented, modeled on my own reflection in his eyes. I dance, dance, dance in the stir of sudden wings.   The
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Ku tej idei - ?e taniec stwarza muzyk? - par?a ludzko?? wszystkimi drogami swoimi, ona sta?a si? natchnieniem i met? mojego czasu, ku niej i ja d??y?em po spirali, coraz cia?niejsze zataczaj?c kr?gi. Ale w tej?e chwili zosta?em unicestwiony. Gdy? zda?em sobie spraw?, ?e my?l t? my?l? jedynie dla jej patosu!
~ Witold Gombrowicz
I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.
~ Woody Allen
Reventarse: buscarlo los ojos al vértigo para bailar a solas con él.
~ Xavier Velasco
Es una verguenza decirlo pero, mierda, no sé bailar salsa.
~ Xavier Velasco
When, lithe of limb, she danced the Pyrrhic, loud clapping followed; and the Paphlagonians asked, If these women fought by their side in battle? to which they answered, To be sure, it was the women who routed the great King, and drove him out of camp. So ended the night.
~ Xenophon
No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
~ Christopher Walken
We're hungry for a blue that will sing like a drum We're lifting our spring feet to dance this death down
~ Chrystos
Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.
~ Ciara
Fitch danced on rooftops like some kind of manic digital maestro in a Wi-Fi headset, waving his arms and crying, 'More power! Need more power!
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Emma was horrified and transfixed at the same time. She was watching Jonah Kinlock doing what he did best. There was a certain macabre beauty in watching form and function wedded together. In Jonah's case, a dance of beauty and death.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Never underestimate the joy of being married to the one man at the party who knows how to dance.
~ Claire Cook
The movement Of the body is Where poetry Begins
~ Clint Catalyst
Nijinsky got all his master classes over in a single line of explanation.
~ Clive James
Gems and jewels and sparkly things. Perfumes and powders and rouges and ribbons. Waltzes, polkas and polonaises. And princes for partners, And most of all, they liked satin dancing shoes.
~ Hilary McKay
I was determined to do the best I could at my job and at the same time to have as much fun as possible at that splendid dance hall. If I was lucky, I thought, maybe the war would end; then I would be able to make a lot of money in business. I dreamed of having my own company in China, and to some extent I regarded the evenings at the dance hall as an investment in the future, albeit one that had been financed to a considerable extent by my brother.
~ Hiroo Onoda
I put on the earphones of my portable CD player and listen to Non-Stop Trance Adventure. As I dance, I begin to feel warm and turn off the heat. I wonder why I'm such a difficult person and I look up at the heater and think of my stubbornness. Tears stream down my face, but I keep on dancing.
~ Unknown
Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
~ Holly Black
Madoc described fighting as a lot of things, as a game of strategy played at speed, as a dance, but right now it feels like a argument. Like an argument where she's keeping me too busy defending myself to score any points.
~ Holly Black