Dancing Quotes - Page 7

• It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

  Bette Midler

  Dance, Dream, Fear

  Song: The Rose, Album: The Rose, 1979

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• Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dance, Heart, Ballet Class

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• Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Dance, Spiritual

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• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dance, Sexy, Funny Sex

  In New Statesman 23 Mar. 1962

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• I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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  Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Lying, Weather

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

  Lord Byron

  Life, Success, Dance

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

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• How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  "Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)

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• Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
  Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.106, DEBOLS!LLO

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• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Art, Philosophical

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Angel, Flames

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.102, Penguin

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• Sing like there's nobody listening,
  And live like it's heaven on earth.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Dance

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• Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Inspirational, Dance, Love Is

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• Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest.

  F.B. Meyer

  Healing, Joy

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• Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Style, Bigs

  "Joy Ride" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2014.

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• If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

  Trace Adkins

  Feels, Ifs

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Dance, Flower, Hair

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  Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

  Satchel Paige

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Dance, Moon, Light

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

  Kathy Mattea

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn't have given you maracas if he didn't want you to shake 'em.

  Cynthia Rhodes

  Ems, Want, Given

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• I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

  Gregory Hines

  Dance, Parent, Alive

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• There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

  Solomon

  Bible, Dance, Biblical

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