Famous Quotes & Sayings

Men are reticent to take dance lessons because that's not where their heads are at. They come to it after they turn 40.

Negotiation seems like dancing the Tango, two steps forward, two steps back and suddenly three surprising steps forward,

Wanda Jackson

Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.

Last year, the dance floor was packed. I would recommend to get there early if you want to get a table near the dance floor.

Damien Hirst

She wasn't much to look at, but she was great to dance with.

Andie MacDowell

She was amazing, ... Much better than I'd have been at 13. She danced and sang up a storm. I could never have done that.

She's very controversial. But she really has done a lot for the pop and dance scene. (Her music) always makes you want to dance somehow.

When the music changes, so does the dance

Twyla Tharp

I see dance as glue for a community.

Twyla Tharp

When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.

Twyla Tharp

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

Twyla Tharp

I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none of this professional garbage going on about how much can you get for this or that or the other, or any of the kinds of things that insecurity can sometimes promote. Sometimes it's for the wrong reasons.'

Twyla Tharp

When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.

Dick Van Dyke

I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'

Diane Kruger

I only dance when I go out.

Twyla Tharp

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Tom Holland

When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. It was good exercise.

Brian Eno

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

We were dancing with them. We didn't set things up properly and were trying for stuff that wasn't there.

Rita Moreno

When was the last time you saw a story being driven forward by dances and songs?

Ryne Sandberg

I got to see him when I got inducted into the Hall of Fame last July and he sang a song for my wife and myself that we danced to. He was just a big part of my experience with the Hall of Fame last July.

Vaclav Havel

I still very well remember the moment in 1978 when me and my friends learned that Karol Wojtyla was elected the pope. It was a moment of an immense joy for us. I even think that we were so delighted that we danced for joy.

Jamie King

Listen, I love old Madonna songs--I don't know one person who doesn't. But we want to focus mainly on this album. I think people love it and they want to hear it, so expect a lot of the songs from Confessions on a Dance Floor .

Tom Rath

We know how to do this... there's kind of an elegant dance, as they say.

Eddie Palmieri

We'll be playing nothing but dance music and after you hear what we play, it's so danceable, you can't sit still. That the way it works wherever we go.

There's an incredible variety there, and dance lovers are going to be in seventh heaven.

At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

Prince William

As she said goodbye, she said: ""Any good parties, invite me down."" I said ""Yes,"" but there was no way. I knew full well that if I invited her down, she would dance me under the table.

She likes to dance and splash in the water, and she loves being outside.

She liked the dancing, and she loved to meet people.

So far, it has been huge for us. We have one of our guys train people to line dance and we have half price steak nights the same night. So people can come, enjoy dinner and then stay for dancing.

Gloria Hunniford

Dancing was what we always used to do around the house,

Dancing is something I've been doing for so long that it has become a part of me. Dance is in my heart.