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Quotes About Dance

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.
~ Lord Byron
And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs, and led a company of scarlet and golden leaves, that had dreaded this day but danced now it had come; and away with a riot of dancing and glory of colour, high in the light of the sun that had set from the sight of the fields, went wind and leaves together.
~ Lord Dunsany
Ten cents a dance—That's what they pay me;Gosh, how they weigh me down!Ten cents a dance—Pansies and rough guys,Tough guys who tear my gown!
~ Lorenz Hart
dance allows our bodies to express our emotions in a way that words sometimes can't. When we dance, we express our buried feelings, talking through our bodies instead of our minds — and that can help us get out of our heads and to a new level of awareness. That's partly what dance therapy is about. It's another technique some therapists use.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Polka will never die.
~ Jim Butcher
When it gets here, we'll run out and dance in it," I said. "Why?" Maggie asked. "If we don't, life has just as much rain," I said, "but way less dancing.
~ Jim Butcher
I'm not a doctor, Butters said. We'd done this dance several times. You are the Mighty Butters, I said. You can do anything.
~ Jim Butcher
Truth be told, my head was spinning so much that the car could have been doing interpretive dance in a lilac tutu and I might not have noticed.
~ Jim Butcher
He looks something like a Caucasian." "Impossible," I said. "He has rhythm and he can dance.
~ Jim Butcher
I'm not a doctor," Butters said. We'd done this dance several times. "You are the Mighty Butters," I said. "You can do anything." "I'm a medical examiner. I cut up corpses." "If it helps, think of this as a preventative autopsy.
~ Jim Butcher
The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.
~ Jim Morrison
Maybe the hokie pokie is what it's all about?
~ Jimmy Buffet
I thought about the way we danced, close.
~ Joan Didion
Take some Butterscotch Crunch Fudge, too. Lisa and I made it while you were at Danielle's dance studio. It's in the cooler and it should be ready to cut by now. It's delicious, and Bonne's bound to like that. I'd give you one of the Cashew Candy Rolls we made for the opening night of the play, but they're not hard enough to cut yet.
~ Joanne Fluke
I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.
~ Jodi Picoult
We are FREE, not bound like a Tree. We can Move, we can Dance... We can take a Chance!
~ Unknown
For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.
~ Delta Burke
If you think POSITIVE, sounds becomes music, movement becomes dance, smile becomes meditation, and life becomes celebration.
~ Unknown
Dance halls were where young men and women conducted their courtships, and most had one clear objective: to find a spouse. Mercedes was an exception. The last thing on her mind was to find a soulmate.... When she went out on a Friday and Saturday night she had no desire for anything beyond the life-enhancing thrill of the dance.
~ Unknown
Did it really happen as the legend said? Did they in truth dance here? Were they struck down in their defiance and turned to stone, to stand on this spot as the centuries passed? How fortunate they were! Sudden death was preferable to a lingering one. I thought of the seventh – the one who had been dragged to the hollow wall, the one who was shut in to die; and I was filled with a momentary melancholy.
~ Unknown
Then what in your opinion is a good story?' 'What it's always been, monkey,' Ganesha said. 'One dhansu conflict. Some chaka-chak song and dance. Grief. Love. Love for the lover, love for the mother. Love for the land. Comedy. Terror. One tremendous villain whom we must love also. All the elements properly balanced and mixed together, item after item, like a perfect meal with a dance of tastes. There you have it.
~ Vikram Chandra
Why aren't you dancing with joy at this very moment? is the only relevant spiritual question.
~ Unknown
C'est ainsi que, contre toute attente, on continue de danser, dans le noir, sur une musique primitive dont le culte semble ne jamais vouloir s'éteindre, au crépuscule du troisième millénaire.
~ Virginie Despentes
Most Indian tribes considered the eagle a great and powerful spirit. His courage was admired, his strength envied. The great height to which this bird flew gave evidence that he could reach heaven, and his plumes were said to carry prayers. The Eagle dance is one of the most graceful of all the Indian dances, and the costume is one of the most spectacular of all Southwestern dance costumes. The Eagles usually dance in pairs but there are a few solo dances.
~ Unknown