Dancing Quotes - Page 10

• Dancers are the athletes of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Dance, Philosophical, Athlete

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• Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Thinking

  "The Routledge Dance Studies Reader". Book by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, p. 96, 1998.

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

  Joshua Reynolds

  Dance, Children, Attitude

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone, Thomas Gray (1798). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting”, p.88

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• I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Moving, Thinking

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• I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.

  Rachel Bilson

  Tennis, Gym

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• The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

  Bruce Schneier

  Pigs, Picks, Security

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• Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Messengers, Choreography

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• There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Good Luck, People, Lovely

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• I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.

  Fred Astaire

  Kissing, Making Love

  "We Thought We Could Do Anything: The Life of Screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron" by Henry Ephron, New York: Norton, (p. 131), 1977.

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• It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  World

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• I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

  Ginger Rogers

  Inspirational, Dance, Men

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• Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

  Confucius

  Dance, Men, Giving

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• Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

  Mason Cooley

  Running, Romance, Literature

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• All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

  Moliere

  Dance, Book, Skills

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• Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

  Alarmel Valli

  Dance, Wine, Ballet

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• Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Splits, Timing

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• I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

  Chris Martin

  Home, Thinking, Passionate

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• Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

  Elijah Fenton

  Delight, Elegant

  William Congreve, Elijah Fenton (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.333

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• I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

  Vivien Leigh

  Elocution, Fencing

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• The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

  Twyla Tharp

  Different, Rewards

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• Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Volleyball, Mean

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

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• I do everything I know how in a dance.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Know How, Knows

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• Let's face the music and dance.

  Irving Berlin

  Dance, Faces, Music And Dance

  1936 'Let's Face the Music and Dance', in the film Follow the Fleet.

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• Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.

  Jose Limon

  Dance, Tired, Pompous

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• When you dance, you don't sweat. You glow.

  Didi

  Dance, Sweat, Just Dance

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