Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Richardson

Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing - in a room, till the walls disappear - in the open, till the sky, moving as you dance, seems to cleave and let you through.

Duke Ellington

Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.

Doris Humphrey

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

Doris Humphrey

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

Dwayne Johnson

That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

Diogenes

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

Desmond Tutu

As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

Deborah Bull

You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

Deborah Bull

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

Deborah Bull

So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance will seem easier...

Deborah Bull

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

Deborah Bull

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

Deborah Bull

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

Andie MacDowell

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.

Alphonsus Liguori

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

Andy Warhol

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

Anais Nin

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

Anita Shreve

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Christopher Marlowe

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

Donna Mills

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

Donna Shalala

Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center.

Dale Carnegie

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Cris Judd

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

Claude Debussy

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

Clive Barnes

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Clive Barnes

Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

Dustin Diamond

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

Annette Funicello

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Angela Lansbury

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

Alvin Ailey

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.

Alvin Ailey

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

Alvin Ailey

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

Alvin Ailey

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