Dance Quotes - Page 4

• I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspiring, Sports, Business

  "Dance Like There’s Nobody Watching" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2016.

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• Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Ballet Class, Shoes

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• You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Inspiring, Spiritual

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Heart, Dancing

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Thinking, Order

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• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Heart, Thinking, Achievement

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• I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

  Ted Shawn

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

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• Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Flower, Hair, Dancing

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• In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

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• Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

  Voltaire

  Reading, Two, Dancing

  "The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version". Volume 6,

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• If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, Ballet Class, Dancing

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• Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

  George Balanchine

  Ballet Class, Play, Piano

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• When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

  Diana Vreeland

  Dream, Dancing

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Ballet Class

  "Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Passion, Ballet Class, Dancing

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• I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

  George Balanchine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

  Thomas Campion

  Answers, Kind, Break

  'The Third Book of Airs' (1617) no. 7

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• I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Motivational, Mean, Used

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Dancing, France, England

  The Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, Lewis Carroll, Антуан де Сент-Экзюпери, Шарль Перро (2016). “Fairy Story / Сказки Мира (ENGLISH EDITION + RUSSIAN EDITION): The Classic Fairy Tales And Folktales / Классика Всемирного Наследия”, p.85, Slavamax BVBA

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• O, Love's but a dance,
  Where Time plays the fiddle!
  See the couples advance -
  O, Love's but a dance!
  A whisper, a glance,
  "Shall we twirl down the middle?"
  O, Love's but a dance,
  Where Time plays the fiddle!

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Couple, Play, Middle

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• Dance is movement, and movement is life.

  Ludmilla Chiriaeff

  Dancing, Movement, Just Dance

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• The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Death, Animal, Dancing

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• I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.

  Fred Astaire

  Motivational, Moving, Feet

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• Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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