Dancing Quotes - Page 36

• Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Voice, Matter

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• I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect symbol of the activity of God and His angels. I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically. I believe that true education in the art of dance is education of the whole man.

  Ted Shawn

  Art, Believe, Angel

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• People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.

  Tim Wise

  Strong, Hurt, Commitment

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• It's all about self-expression; you know, if you feel like a troll then you should look like a troll. It doesn't matter what you look like. I mean, if you have a hunchback just throw a little glitter on it, honey, and go dancing!

  James St. James

  Mean, Self, Expression

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• From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

  Nostradamus

  Horse, Morning, Circles

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• Dance like nobody's looking.

  Mark Twain

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

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Fishing, Lines

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• I heard the spring light whisper
  Above the dancing stream,
  The world is made forever
  in likeness of a dream.

  Bliss Carman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing.

  Robert Pinsky

  Art, Air, Sound

  Robert Pinsky (2014). “The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide”, p.8, Macmillan

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• People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back.

  Jack Carter

  Love, College, People

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• DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

  Alexa Chung

  Song, Fun, Phones

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• The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

  Aberjhani

  Halos, Vortex, Sacred

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.83, Lulu.com

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• I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.

  Sonja Henie

  Want, Skates

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

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• You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights

  Bob Barker

  Girl, Light, Television

  "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

  Nathanael West

  Children, World, Whole

  Nathanael West (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.

  David Rakoff

  Children, Cities, Clouds

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• Actually I'm more passionate about dancing than I am about singing.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Singing, Passionate

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• Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless but there is a lot of work. It’s exactly like doing ballet. It’s hours and hours but when you go onstage it’s just the pleasure of dancing.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Ideas, People, Ballet

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• No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Girl, Kings, Men

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

  Ray Conniff

  Smile, New York, Fun

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• Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor.

  Steve Paxton

  Dance, Doe, Add

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• Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

  Agnes de Mille

  Artist, Whole Life, Findings

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• It has always been my dream and ambition to introduce Irish dancing to the world.

  Michael Flatley

  Dream, Ambition, World

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• After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Jobs, Quitting, I Quit

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• Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Atheist, May, Spirit

  Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.251

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