Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Plato

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

Paula Abdul

I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.

Mary E. Pearson

Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

Martin Parr

The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.

John Travolta

Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

John Travolta

Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.

John Updike

All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.

John Suckling

But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.

John Selden

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

Peggy Lee

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

Sheena Easton

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

Terence Stamp

I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.

Nora Roberts

I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

Miranda Kerr

I don't really enjoy cardio, but I find activities like cranking up the music and dancing around my house keep me energized and feeling good.

Johnny Mercer

Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry.

Johnny Marr

I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I'm concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.

Mae Jemison

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

Mads Mikkelsen

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

Michael K. Williams

I came out the womb dancing.

Mata Hari

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

Mata Hari

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mason Cooley

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

Mason Cooley

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

Mia Wasikowska

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

Michel Faber

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

Michel Foucault

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

Patricia Velasquez

I began dancing when I was just 5, and I never really wanted to become an actress because its what every other model does.

Patricia Velasquez

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

Oscar Wilde

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.