Dancing Quotations | Page 4

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.

Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of these show show business ingredients than by dancing?

The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.

When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.'

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2 invited Benny and I on stage to sing Dancing Queen, I just assumed we were being sent up. But now I see they were paying tribute to us

She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.

Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

They may not know what I'm doing, but they know I'm doing something!

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.

If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you have a hot dog eating contest, call me.

It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

We can choose to be like the Mormon pioneers, who maintained a spirit of gratitude during their slow and painful trek toward the Great Salt Lake, even singing and dancing and glorying in the goodness of God.

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.

And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.

When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing.

I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which is good as a child.

When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

I think it would be worse to get mauled by a dancing bear than just a regular bear because you can't totally blame the dancing bear.

Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web.

You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

Dancing is like riding a bike.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

Every savage can dance.

The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.

When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.

What we love to do in our show is we love to make people dance. That's a big thing for us. So within that, that's a reason why people really enjoy hearing us for an extended amount of time because we constantly have them moving and dancing and engaged.

When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want to shake my ass, not 'cause "I'm dancing like a black girl!"

I was okay with singing. I always sneak a song into everything I do. Dancing, a little awkward. Little embarrassed about that. I don't move well. But I was with a frog, so it doesn't matter. I'll do anything with a frog, that's my motto. He's great with tap-dancing or flap-dancing on my head. So no one's going to be looking at me when we're doing that dance. They're going to be saying, 'There's a frog dancing'.

I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects

A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.

The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.

A-well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath, I went and put my dancing shoes on.

I never really did any disco dancing.

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

I'm a slave for you. Dancing in the dark.

I sold my soul to the industry. I'm a slave for you. Dancing in the dark. I took a sip from my devil's cup. Slowly It's taking over me. Satan's our lord. Devil's lease.

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor.

We were dancing with them. We didn't set things up properly and were trying for stuff that wasn't there.

Seventy percent of the people who take ballroom today are couples, not people who have one foot in the grave and one foot in the geriatric ward, ... Dancing With the Stars.

She's always dancing at the house and putting on a show so why not just put her in a show.

Oh yeah. I'm always dancing on bars. I'm a bloke that loves a drink, and when you're just free and on the loose like we are on films - it happens.

Simone looks set for the Dancing with the Stars equivalent of a golden duck.

She could do things on beam that I had no name for. As a third-year coach, I had visions of grandeur, thoughts of state championships dancing before me. I couldn't wait to work with someone at that level.

Most people who take our exercise classes are college-age women. Pole dancing just seems like it promotes objectification of women and surface sexuality.

Miller has chosen, for whatever reason, to be the bell ringer for (concessions for) the next five years. He's been pretty outspoken. Auto executives have been dancing around this for a while, but they're not saying anything. They're sitting back and will reap the rewards. They sent the messenger and will reap the rewards.

May your voyage through life be as happy and as free, As the dancing waves on the deep blue sea

My figure ... never felt like an asset until I started dancing

My feelings started to change when I realized that dancing was getting inside my body, emotionally, as well as physically.

One of the things we've been puzzling over here in the U.S. is that people haven't been dancing in the streets as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit new four-year highs.

more formations out there than in a ballroom dancing team.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels/ The dizzy dancing way you feel/ As every fairy tale comes real/ I've looked at love that way.

No one writes about my charity work, they'd rather write about me dancing on a table, which I've never done.

Negotiation seems like dancing the Tango, two steps forward, two steps back and suddenly three surprising steps forward,

I was grateful that I had dancing to fall back on. It was my survival tactic. It was my friend. It was always there.

I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.

I would say especially at the beginning. I wouldn't say that they were nervous but maybe a little bit on the jittery side. Olympia had their radio in the dugout and they were dancing and singing when we were out there taking infield practice.

I don't have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing - but don't ask why. Just an overflow of energy, for no reason at all. I am with existence.

I don't force myself to exercise; I find going to gyms really boring. I find it easier to go for a fast walk or a jog in Central Park. I wear sensible shoes because my ballet dancing left me with a bunion on one foot after all the pointe exercises.

I danced my whole life, and belly dancing made me feel more comfortable to be in my own body.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.