Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demetri Martin

Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web.

Daniel H. Wilson

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

Bruce Forsyth

It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.

Barry Gibb

I never really did any disco dancing.

Antony Tudor

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

Antony Tudor

I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.

Aphra Behn

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

Brooke Langton

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Edmund Hillary

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

Eckhart Tolle

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.

Edgar Degas

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

Ed Sheeran

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

Earl Derr Biggers

When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

Elizabeth Berkley

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.

Edward Lear

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

Edward Lear

They danced by the light of the moon.

Bobby Orr

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

Azar Nafisi

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

When you see it in performance, then you can see the intrigue and the scenes of danger and conspiracy.

When gold and Russia and India are the top-performing sectors, that's a dangerous space to be investing in.

Liz Murray

When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.'

Mike Rowe

'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.

Pierce Brosnan

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.

Caity Lotz

I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.

Douglas Brinkley

Nobody has trusted the Iranian government from day one, but the idea of just refusing to have any kind of talks is dangerous in the extreme. Every administration says at least that we're trying to have talks between Israel and Palestine and solve the Middle East peace problem.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Mel Gibson was lovely. He was on the edge of both scenes that I had with Danny Glover.

Caroline Knapp

Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.

Alex Meraz

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.

Albert Einstein

Dancers are the athletes of God.