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Quotes About Dance

Lindy-hop could go back to being just a social thing. But where she belonged in life After the Meteor, was here. Here, she made a difference. Sprained ankle and all.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Galaxies dances across her drawn skin. Mine moved in reflection.
~ Elizabeth Bear
No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.
~ Elizabeth Berkley
Honesty is nothing more than a party trick, and you know how much I love to dance.
~ Elizabeth Brooks
We who dance hungry and wild...under a winter's moon
~ Elizabeth Coatsworth
the God that the Sufi poet Hafiz writes about: Not the God of names, Nor the God of don'ts, Nor the God who ever does Anything weird, But the God who only knows four words And keeps repeating them, saying: "Come dance with Me.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
She loved being alive and in the world; being alive and in the world with her was like dancing with someone who really knew how to lead.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
She was a clock, I could tell by the ticking in her wrist. (I'd secretly slipped my thumb down, to feel her pulse as we danced. It was perfectly steady and wreaking havoc with mine.) I could keep time by you, I thought.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Ho teso corde da campanile a campanile; ghirlande da finestra a finestra; catene d'oro da stella a stella, e danzo.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
En la horca negra bailan, amable manco, bailan los paladines, los descarnados danzarines del diablo; danzan que danzan sin fin los esqueletos de Saladín. ¡Monseñor Belzebú tira de la corbata de sus títeres negros, que al cielo gesticulan, y al darles en la frente un buen zapatillazo les obliga a bailar ritmos de Villancico!
~ Arthur Rimbaud
y es cierto eso que dicen? ¿Que el carácter de una mujer se muestra con más sinceridad cuando baila? ?A veces. Pero no más que el de un hombre
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
En aquel entonces, además de los bailes de salón que le servían para ganarse la vida —tango, foxtrot, boston—, dominaba como nadie el arte de crear fuegos artificiales con las palabras y dibujar melancólicos paisajes con los silencios.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
There are only two types of people. Those who dance with their soul and others who move to the beats. I am not sure what rest of the world does!
~ Ashima
My energy just couldn't stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.
~ Assata Shakur
Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right?...Learn to dance life like champions instead of always being just a bunch of beginners at it?
~ Athol Fugard
So just bust a move!
~ Ava J. Abramowitz
I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.
~ Matthew Morrison
People want to rap about having a good time.
~ Juicy J
Even though 'Turn Down For What' is considered an EDM song, it's really a rap song.
~ Lil Jon
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
~ Archie Shepp
Soulja Boy is on his dance, down south, young, 18-year-old, comedic swag. It's really just each person's personality; if every rapper had the same swag, it would be kind of boring.
~ Soulja Boy
I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
~ Flavor Flav
It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.
~ Patricia McBride