Quotes About Dance

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance

The significance of the dance in the education and socialisation of Samoan children is two-fold. In the first place it effectively offsets the rigorous subordination in which children are habitually kept. Here the admonitions of the elders change from "Sit down and keep still!" to "Stand up and dance!" The children are actually the centre of the group instead of its barely tolerated fringes.

My mind soars and whirls in a dance of wild fear and graceful hope.

People danced a lot then. I miss that.

As always, aesthetics and ethics dance a tango in dramas.

As the music stops you'll miss its lilt. Keep dancing, keep listening. Speak up. Ask for more music, more. In case you don't know, what you want is magnificent, yours for the asking, the rhythm of magnanimous exchange.

Precise language surprises like a dancer's extra second of stillness in mid-air; word and experience come together in an irreproducible moment of epiphanic delight. The next time the word appears, it may have a different feel or color or emphasis. Contexts change; usage changes; assigned meaning shifts; words accrue rings of history like trees and become more dense with life.

My heart's a dance of fear.

If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

Remember dream and work to live your dreams. Dance to free your minds and be who you are!

Life calls the tune, we dance.

There are times when I just want to run outside in the rain and just dance and feel free from my vapid world.

Why didn't the skeleton go to the dance? Because he had no body to go with.

I could dance till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows till you come home.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance -waiting for the bathroom.

When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.

Conversationally, we were Fred and Ginger -- spin, slide, shuffle, bend.

Speaking about anthros: "Spear decided, 'Something is wrong. When we live with our spirits, we become more like them. They dance. We dance. They steal and rape women. We steal and rape women. They fight and kill. We fight and kill. But these nabas don't do what they say their spirit does. They say he's generous. But they're not. They say he's kind. But they're not.