Dancer Quotes - Page 40

• It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Angel, Dancing, Flying

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• Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, Lying, Men

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled
  shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!

  Marianne Moore

  Shoes, White, Dancing

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.132, Penguin

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• Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Competition, Actors

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• You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
  Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,
  The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
  And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, House, Clay

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Come swish around my pretty punk
  And keep me dancing still
  That I may stay a sober man
  Although I drink my fill.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Men, Dancing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.268, Wordsworth Editions

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• ... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Dance, Kind, Conscious

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• The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

  Ellen Goodman

  Children, Artist, Average

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• Someone is dead.
  Even the trees know it,
  those poor old dancers who come on lewdly,
  all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

  Anne Sexton

  Tree, Green, Poor

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

  Isadora Duncan

  Humanity, Nations

  "The Dance".

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• All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Dream, Body, Photographer

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• Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

  Denis Lavant

  Expression, Firsts, Actors

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• The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.

  William Prynne

  Dance, Men, Jumping

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• I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.

  Misty Copeland

  Hard Work, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I think most people don't really understand all that it takes to stand on your toes, and to be able to jump and land without any noise, or for a male dancer to be able to lift a girl. All of these things look so effortless, but there's an attention to detail and years of training, as well as being able to transform into a character and being able to meld all of those things together.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

  Misty Copeland

  Black And White, Becoming, Stage

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

  Misty Copeland

  Ballet, The End Of The Day, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Musician, World

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• Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

  Robin Williams

  Lap, Kind, Paraplegics

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". TV Special, December 6, 2009.

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• I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

  Glenn Roeder

  Fancy

  "Roeder balances ambition with discretion" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2006.

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• I always want to have more dancers in my company.

  Alvin Ailey

  Dance, Want, Company

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• When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Meaningful, Mother

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• I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.

  Kate Hudson

  Teacher, Dancing, Scary

  "Kate Hudson Wants You to Wear Gym Clothes On a Date". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. June 8, 2015.

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• What I have to tell you is this: I am resolved that dancing is to be my path. I know that to be a dancer is to be considered in our world little more than a prostitute. But you cannot imagine what is happening here in Berlin. It is different back home, but in Europe dance is being reborn as something more than cheap entertainment by loose women.

  Wendy Buonaventura

  Home, Our World, Europe

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• The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.

  George Will

  Communication, Government, Political

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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