Dancing Quotes - Page 34

• The greater the fool the better the dancer.

  Theodore Hook

  Dancer, Ballet, Fool

  Theodore Edward Hook, Richard Harris Dalton Barham (1849). “The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook: Life”, p.128

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• To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

  John Milton

  Ballet, Maids, Shade

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.407

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• Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Ballet, Carriages, Importance

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.99

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• Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes.

  Ne-Yo

  Sexy, Excuse You, Shoes

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• You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

  Rex Stout

  Art, Gay, Important

  Rex Stout (2010). “Champagne for One”, p.27, Crimeline

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• Do you know what it is sir? Do you know what the Dance Dance Revolution is? It's not an actual revolution, so you don't have to worry about that. It's not like a bunch of Asians are going to knock on your door 'Hey! Start dancing!'

  Russell Peters

  Doors, Worry, Hey

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• THE HOT (AND SERIOUSLY COOL) ENERGY that comes from the musical gospel preached by the title character of FELA! feels as if it could stretch easily to the borders of Manhattan and then across a river or two. There should be dancing in the streets!

  Ben Brantley

  Character, Two, Rivers

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• I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.

  Gillian Flynn

  Begging You, Hands, Fake

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.11, Crown

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• 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

  Boris Johnson

  War, People, World

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• Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!

  Rupert Everett

  Sex

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• Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.

  Aziz Ansari

  Sex, Hate, Comedian

  "Aziz Ansari: The Funniest Tool In 'Parks' Utility Shed". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 4, 2010.

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• Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.

  Ian Paisley

  Touching, Lust, Lines

  "Paisley to quit as first minister and DUP leader" by Henry McDonald, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2008.

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• Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?

  Pauline Kael

  Wizards, Want, Garlands

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• 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.

  Audre Lorde

  Creative, Erotic, Energy

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.55, Crossing Press

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• It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me

  Tracey Emin

  Destroying Me, Destroying

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• Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  House, Kitchen, Tables

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• You've got to keep your body active, even if that means just turning on some music and dancing for an hour. ...That's how you;ll prepare your bodies and your minds for greatness.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean, Greatness, Mind

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• Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

  David Crosby

  Music, Play, Guy

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• The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral memory. The swells rose sluggishly and fell away, casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of waves on the pilings. It was a fifteen-foot drop to the dim water. The nearest land ahead of me was Hawaii.

  Ross Macdonald

  Memories, Moving, Sea

  Ross Macdonald (2012). “The Drowning Pool”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

  Edgar Degas

  Girl, Lying, Clothes

  Edgar Degas, Russell Ash (1992). “Degas' Ballet Dancers”, Universe Pub

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• All dancing is a replacement for sex.

  Mick Jagger

  Sex, Replacements

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

  Pina Bausch

  Lost

  "Pina", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.

  Pina Bausch

  Believe, Technique, New Work

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• We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

  John Zerzan

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  John Zerzan (2012). “Future Primitive Revisited”, p.96, Feral House

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• You love to listen to the very things that nailed your supposed Master to the tree?! Come off of it, man! Become a hellion, give yourself to demons, run wild; but don't come in here saying you're a believer and playing that game! You want to dance with the devil, then dance all night long! But don't come in here dancing with Christ for a moment, and then go back out there and share your love.

  Paul Washer

  Running, Men, Night

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