Inspirational Dance Quotes - Page 2

• Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

  Ted Shawn

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Dance, Witty

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

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• Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Change, Dance

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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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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• To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Dance

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• Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

  Vicki Baum

  Happiness, Happy, Dance

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• The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

  Maurice Bejart

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Discipline, Dancing

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• We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

  Martha Graham

  Life, Dance, Education

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Volleyball, Mean

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Dance, Spiritual, Littles

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Falling In Love, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.99, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

  David Gere

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Ballet Class, Discipline

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• I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

  Ginger Rogers

  Inspirational, Dance, Men

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• Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dance, Writing, Echoes

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• 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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• All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

  Martha Graham

  Love, Dance, Dancing

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• I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, God, Philosophy

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• It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Dance, Courage, Heart

  Xiaolu Guo (2014). “Kleines Wörterbuch für Liebende: Roman”, p.95, Albrecht Knaus Verlag

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