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Quotes About Dance

At some point in time, in the future, people are going to refer to the Step Up films as the films they grew up on. Hopefully, that inspires them to get in dance films that are being made.
~ Stephen Boss
Dear Lovey, we'll sing and dance, and float as far as Paris, France. On airy currents up above, we'll teach the wildest wind to love.
~ Margo Lundell
My mother was happy that day, we did not know why. And if she was sad the next, we did not know why. And if she was gone the next, we did not know why. It was as if she righted herself continually against some current that never ceased to pull. She swayed continuously, like a thing in water, and it was graceful, a slow dance, a sad and heady dance
~ Marilynne Robinson
I felt that our survival was owed to our slightness, that we danced through ruinous currents as dry leaves do, and were not capsized because the ruin we rode upon was meant for greater things.
~ Marilynne Robinson
When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.
~ Mark Helprin
We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.
~ Mark Helprin
They danced on the shore in marvelous, civilized, humorous reels in which the old contributed wit when they could not contribute grace, and the young listened to their elders, who told them in their dancing to hold on, to love, to be patient, and most of all, to trust.
~ Mark Helprin
He thought only of one thing--the geometries before him. Here was God speaking in His simple absolute language, according to the same grammar that He had used to start the planets on their smooth and silken dance.
~ Mark Helprin
They glanced over at Catherine, who was dancing with Billy, as only fathers and daughters can dance. No matter how old the daughter may be, the father is dancing, in joy unparalleled, with his child when she was little.
~ Mark Helprin
Living is a conversation with no end, a dance with no steps, a song with no words, a reason too big for any mind.
~ Mark Nepo
CHAPTER XXIV THE BALL
~ Anthony Trollope
las palabras de mando eran inútiles, y los hombres, agarrados con todas sus fuerzas a las vergas mientras el barco danzaba
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Half a dozen workmen, with an equal number of superchimp assistants, were busily laying the partly completed dance floor, while others were installing electric wiring and fixing furniture.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Åžeytanla dans etmeye kalkarsan, ÅŸark?y? genellikle ÅŸeytan seçer.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I did not dance again but once, and that with Savona, who insisted that I join Shevraeth and Elenet in a set. Despite his joking remarks from time to time, the Marquis seemed more absent than merry, and Elenet moved, as always, with impervious serenity and reserve. Afterward the four of us went our ways, for Shevraeth did not dance again with Elenet. I know, because I watched.
~ Sherwood Smith
But it's as my mother says: "When a girl can't dance, she blames the musicians …
~ Sholom Aleichem
characters. When I was teaching I noticed that, each year, my students' opinion of writers seemed to have sunk a little lower. But what does it mean when people who want to be writers see writers in such a negative light? Can you imagine a dance student feeling that way about the New York City Ballet? Or young athletes despising Olympic champions?
~ Sigrid Nunez
Well-- philosophized Matey. Eh? Heavens no, I don't want to dance in this stock exchange! Well, I might just as well PRETEND I don't mind Tub's chasing after all these little goldfish, because he'll do it anyway, and I might as well get the credit for being broad-minded. Which I ain't!
~ Sinclair Lewis
I had fun. That's what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I want him. I'm sorry? I peer at her, flicking my mobile open out of habit. The man I just met. I felt it, right here. The sizzle. She presses her concave stomach. I want to dance with him.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?
~ Sophie Kinsella
Can such a man, so desperate, still boast he can save his life from the flashing bolts of god? If all such violence goes with honor now why join the sacred dance?
~ Sophocles
OEDIPUS: If all such violence goes with honor now Why join the sacred dance.
~ Sophocles
And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.
~ Garth Brooks