Dance Quotes - Page 38

• The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection.

  Gerald Jonas

  Angel, Circles, Dancing

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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• Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

  Gerald Jonas

  Writing, Men, White Man

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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• In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.

  Gerald Jonas

  Couple, Dancing, Middle East

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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• By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

  Gerald Jonas

  Dancing, Peers, Way

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• A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

  Gerald Jonas

  Lying, Dancing, Physicians

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

  Plato

  Art, Men, Should Have

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

  Plato

  Men, Dancing, Educated

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• You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.

  William Shakespeare

  Dancing, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Ophelia

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.220, Classic Books Company

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• A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Dancing, Devil, Possession

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• Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Feet, Dancing, Camels

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• The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises.

  Carlo Blasis

  Art, Dancing, Introducing

  Carlo Blasis (1830). “The code of Terpsichore. The art of dancing, tr. by R. Barton”, p.40

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• No sober person dances.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dancing, Sober, Persons

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• A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

  Confucius

  Character, Dancing, Nations

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• It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

  Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

  Sacrifice, Men, Dancing

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• Come up and see me sometime.

  Mae West

  Dancing, Come Up

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself.

  Amanda McKerrow

  Mean, Voice, Ballet

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• See stars in the changing season and dance among them, shining.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Stars, Dancing, Shining

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• When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.

  William Butler Yeats

  Two, Kindred

  William Butler Yeats, Glenn Harrington (2002). “William Butler Yeats”, p.38, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.

  William Prynne

  Pride, Men, Necessary Use

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• The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.

  William Prynne

  Men, Jumping, Dancing

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• Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that wedding where he got up and went 'ya, ya, ya'.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Uncles, Like You, Wells

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• Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

  Evander Holyfield

  Two, Numbers, Giving

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• Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

  Billy Idol

  Dancing, Nothing To Lose, Wells

  Song: Dancing With Myself, Album: Don't Stop, 1981

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• Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.

  Fatboy Slim

  Rap, Thinking, America

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• When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

  Tommy Lee

  Music, Kids, Ballet

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