Dance Quotes - Page 40

• All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Should Have

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• So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

  Plato

  Men, Dancing, Educated

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• You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.

  William Shakespeare

  Dancing, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Ophelia

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.220, Classic Books Company

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• A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Dancing, Devil, Possession

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• Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Feet, Dancing, Camels

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• The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises.

  Carlo Blasis

  Art, Dancing, Introducing

  Carlo Blasis (1830). “The code of Terpsichore. The art of dancing, tr. by R. Barton”, p.40

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• No sober person dances.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dancing, Sober, Persons

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• A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

  Confucius

  Character, Dancing, Nations

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• It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

  Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

  Sacrifice, Men, Dancing

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• Come up and see me sometime.

  Mae West

  Dancing, Come Up

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself.

  Amanda McKerrow

  Mean, Voice, Ballet

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• You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

  Jeff Bridges

  Inspirational, Ballet, Titles

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• My motto - sans limites.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dream, Passion, Limits

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• Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

  Isadora Duncan

  Mad, People, Littles

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

  Adam Lambert

  Inspirational, Artist, Guy

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• We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.

  Avril Lavigne

  Inspirational, Song, Girlfriend

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• They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Food, Moon, Light

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• Some dancers dream about successful careers...and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.

  Grover Dale

  Dream, Hard Work, Successful

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• For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know

  Kate Seredy

  Yesterday, Tomorrow, Knows

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• I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.

  Martha Graham

  Fall, Dancing, Get Up

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• What is a fine person or a beauteous face,
  Unless deportment give them decent grace;
  Blessed with all other requisites to please,
  To want the striking elegance of ease;
  Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
  Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Blessed, Skills

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• The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

  Havelock Ellis

  Reflection, Dancing, Joy

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• The way people move is their autobiography in motion.

  Gerry Spence

  Moving, Dancing, People

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• Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

  George Washington

  Dancing, Wish, Amusement

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.366

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• 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.

  Bill Austin

  Ballet Class, Dancing, Long

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