Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Stanger

I'm a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in I was going for a water break. It wasn't easy!

Paul Valery

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

Paul Valery

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

Mary Oliver

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

Martine McCutcheon

I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

Erik Bruhn

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

Lady Gaga

I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

Lewis Carroll

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Lewis Carroll

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

Josephine Baker

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Julie Kagawa

You're here, and the only dance I want is this one.

Julianne Hough

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

Julianne Hough

My first dance ever on 'Dancing With the Stars' was to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy.'

Joshua Reynolds

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

Kate Seredy

For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know

Laurell K. Hamilton

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

L. J. Smith

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

Lionel Blue

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

Lynette Fromme

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.

Lyndsy Fonseca

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

Lucian

The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.

Lucian

Dancing is as old as love.

Luciano Pavarotti

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

Lord Byron

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Lord Chesterfield

Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

Mahalia Jackson

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

Frank McCourt

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

Gustave Flaubert

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

John Dryden

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Joan Chen

I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.

T. S. Eliot

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

Vera Wang

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.