Dancing Quotes - Page 15

• On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !

  Michael Jackson

  Dance, Sacred, Spirit

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• Traveling is like dancing lessons from God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lessons

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

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Believe, Rewards

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.929, Wordsworth Editions

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• Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.

  Clive James

  Moving, Common Sense, Different

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Writing, Adventure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.315, Graphic Arts Books

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• The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.

  Marge Piercy

  Snakes, Two, Sensual

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• American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, Want, Necks

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• I love the fans and they are the reason for my professional existence. When I'm out there doing a show and I see the fans dancing and singing, that's what I love the most. It's just the greatest feeling in the world.

  Michael Jackson

  Feelings, Singing, Fans

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• Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing;
  Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

  John Harington

  Beautiful, Strong, Wine

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• Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Art, Silly, Drawing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Laughter, Hip Hop

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Aug 21, 2015

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• I think dancing is one of the best things anyone can do for themselves. And it doesn't cost anything.

  Frankie Knuckles

  Thinking, Cost, Best Things

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• Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.

  Oliver Sacks

  Moving, Musical, Brain

  Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.445, Vintage

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• The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig - is to understand the nature of the occasion.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing, Successful, Singing

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• You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

  Aphra Behn

  Making Love, Sitting, May

  Aphra Behn, Jane Spencer (1998). “The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon”, p.300, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

  Jim Crace

  Novelists, Asking, Cooks

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• Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you want to play, and forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it.

  Allan Holdsworth

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• Nakedness means freedom, and although dancing on a sun-kissed hillside with shorts on seems pretty similar to dancing with shorts off, there is all the difference in the world. It is as if your clothes take on the weight of your worries and concerns - they come to embody your defences against the world, and if you can feel confident enough and safe enough, then taking them off evokes a powerful sense of liberation, of joy and freedom; and more than that - of innocence and of openness to the world.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Powerful, Mean, Differences

  Philip Carr-Gomm (2012). “A Brief History of Nakedness”, p.48, Reaktion Books

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• I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.

  Twyla Tharp

  Believe, Movement, Common

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Singing, Painting

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• I think that's so particularly exciting about this moment in time is all the new platforms that are now existing, the Netflixes and the Hulus and Amazons and so and so forth; I mean they are really doing what pay TV was doing twenty years ago. So a show like Dancing On The Edge gets to have a digital life after it's playing on Starz. I think what's exciting is how these new platforms are providing more opportunities both for first-run programming on the one hand but also for second plays for shows that have appeared first either on traditional broadcast or on cable.

  Colin Callender

  Running, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: deadline.com

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• Lemurs are extraordinarily leapers. I mean they are just really going from tree to tree and then if there is not a tree, they just come down to the ground very gracefully. But it is the music that makes them seem to be dancing. They are basically getting from one place to another and that's just natural for them. They are just natural acrobatic dancers, just the way they move. It's beautiful!

  Patricia Wright

  Beautiful, Moving, Mean

  "Interview: “Island Of Lemurs” Filmmakers". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. April 5, 2014.

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• It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
  the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
  dancing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Horse, Sight

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• The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.

  Wendell Berry

  Sunday, Cedars, Afternoon

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• From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

  Rita Hayworth

  Heart, Twelve, Bread

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