Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Indian Proverb

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak

Alvin Ailey

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Andy Warhol

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

Rita Rudner

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Ricki Lake

I am not a natural dancer.

Rudolf Nureyev

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

James Sturm

I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Daniel Pennac

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

Daniel Pennac

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.

Daniel Clowes

There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read. I'll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I'm reading it. That's what I'm kind of trying to do with my comics.

Cotton Mather

Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engross all your application. Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite for the reading of poems which the nation now swarms withal; and let not the Circaen cup intoxicate you. But especially preserve the chastity of your soul from the dangers you may incur, by a conversation with muses no better than harlots.

Clive James

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

Carson Kressley

I love music. I love going out dancing.

Jane Austen

Every savage can dance.

Bella Thorne

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

Barry Gibb

I never really did any disco dancing.

Robert Henri

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

Neil Gaiman

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

Jim Crace

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

Michelle Lombardo

He saw I had talent and he wanted to keep me in the business, whether it was through dancing or designing,

Wayne Williams

I began dancing for entertainers and singers and, as I got older I wanted to progress and get myself a vocal instrument. I started taking singing lessons and getting some serious direction and that's how it began to build.