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Quotes About Dance

Deus (...) deixa se afinar à vontade o instrumento, até que chegue a hora de se dansar.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Nos, én azt vallom, hogy akár táncolunk, akár nem, bohócok vagyunk, úgyhogy ezzel az erÅ'vel akár táncolhatunk is.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Ginger did everything Fred did, only backwards and in High Heels!
~ Joan Rivers
To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.
~ Joanna Macy
A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme, Ou va-ti mistigri? Passe sans faire de mai ici.
~ Joanne Harris
Boom chicka boom. Benjamin can hear her soundtrack so clearly she might as well be carrying a speaker on each hip. In his neighborhood, she'd have a line of men following her down the street, dancing to that beat.
~ Ann Napolitano
The only excuse for dancing is grace and beauty of movement.
~ Anna Pavlova
The moon waxes and wanes. The tides ebb and flow. The seasons turn, each in their own time. Ever changing, never changing. Of course you'll change. The dance of life spirals, remember? Even when you return to a point, you're not in the same place. The dance would have changed you, whether you'd come here or stayed home.
~ Anne Bishop
I will not stop singing the Muses who set me dancing.
~ Anne Carson
what song of death, what dance of Hades shall I do?
~ Anne Carson
Jealousy is a dance in which everyone moves, for it is the instability of the emotional situation that preys upon a jealous lover's mind.
~ Anne Carson
Beauty is a simple passion,but, oh my friends, in the endyou will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.
~ Anne Sexton
We moved like angels washing themselves. We moved like two birds on fire. — Anne Sexton, from "How We Danced" in "The Death of the Fathers," The Norton Anthology of American Literature , ed. Baym et al, 5th edition, Volume 2, (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1998)
~ Anne Sexton
I do a death dance, I lay a snake skin…
~ Anne Sexton
And so she danced until she was dead, a subterranean figure, her tongue flicking in and out like a gas jet.
~ Anne Sexton
Raccoon Coon, why did you come to this dance with a mask on? Why not the tin man and his rainbow girl? Why not Racine, his hair marcelled down to his chest? Why not come as a stomach digesting its worms? Why you little fellow with your ears at attention and your nose poking up like a microphone? You whig emblem, you woman chaser, who do you dance over the wide lawn tonight clanging the garbage pail like great silver bells?
~ Anne Sexton
It's a plié. You do it on all the positions. It's very good for dramatic moments.
~ Anne Ursu
Et, figurez-vous que je danse aussi! Et je me contrefiche d'avoir l'air d'un ours ou d'un hippopotame, vous devriez essayer. Même si on ne rattrape jamais le temps perdu, on peut décider de ne plus en perdre.
~ Anne-Laure Bondoux
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
~ Annie Leibovitz
Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men.
~ Anonymous
I danced for, like, 11 years at bar mitzvahs and executive parties. I'm a professional energy producer. I produce energy, baby.
~ Tiffany Haddish
Dance gives me a lot of confidence and helps me overcome all my insecurities in personal and professional life.
~ Shamna Kasim
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
~ Bebe Neuwirth
If I wasn't going to be able to dance professionally, I wasn't going to dance. That's my all-or nothing personality coming out.
~ Phyllis Smith