Dancing Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

  Heather Morris

  Dad, Years, Passed Away

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

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• Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.

  Heather Morris

  Sports, Art, Trying

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

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• I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

  Ben Katchor

  Spiritual, Religious, Years

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• The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.

  Cat Deeley

  Dad, Funny Wedding, Next

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• The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.

  Maximilian Schell

  Falling In Love, War, Interesting

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• I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

  Taylor Hanson

  Able, Generations, World

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• The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Children, Real, Men

  "Is There a Santa Claus?". The New York Sun, en.wikisource.org. September 21, 1897.

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• Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

  Victoria Abril

  Pain, Scripts, Film

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

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• I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

  Victoria Abril

  Morning, School, Night

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• As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

  Victor Cruz

  Grandma, Kids, Would Be

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• I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.

  Victor Cruz

  Stars, Want, Dancing With The Stars

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• You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.

  Karen Kain

  Giving, Given, Fulfillment

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• When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.

  Jane Wagner

  Molecules, Mystical

  "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.

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• The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.

  Johan Huizinga

  Civilization, Play, Competition

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• The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

  Hakim Bey

  Perception, Deeds, Golden

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• We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

  Rumi

  Life, Meditation, Inward

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

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• Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

  Rumi

  Soul, Shadow, World

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• Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

  Ann Miller

  Thinking, Sweat, Brain

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

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• The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Buddhism, Warrior, Accomplishment

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.14, Bottom of the Hill

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• Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

  Sharon Stone

  Pedestal, Complaining, Dirt

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

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• Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Silence, Littles, Return

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• Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls... I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.

  Melanie Brown

  Girl, Keys, House

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

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• I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.

  Betsey Johnson

  Acrobatics, Specialty

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• I mean, when you grow up dancing, you have to become very comfortable in your own skin.

  Sharni Vinson

  Growing Up, Mean, Skins

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