Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What would he imagine next? Little hairy beasties tap-dancing on his sofa, or other fey creatures sneaking up on him in the shower?’ (Syn)

John Milton

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

John Milton

Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

John Milton

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

Norman Granz

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Ninette de Valois

All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

Ninette de Valois

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

Ninette de Valois

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Ninette de Valois

We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

Ninette de Valois

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

Ninette de Valois

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

Ninette de Valois

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Neil Innes

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

Neil Gaiman

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

John Muir

Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.

Ted Shawn

Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

Ted Shawn

Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance.

Ted Shawn

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Ted Shawn

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

Ted Shawn

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

Michele Lee

In Seesaw, I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I dont get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

Michael Ondaatje

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

MC Hammer

Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner.

Max Nordau

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

May Sarton

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Maurice Sendak

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

Maura Tierney

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

Matthew Arnold

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Marina and the Diamonds

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

Mary Steenburgen

Dancing in the strip club, Not the dancing, but the being naked was excruciatingly scary for me.

Plato

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Plato

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

Plato

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.