Dancing Quotes - Page 29

• Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.

  Michael Palin

  Queens, Fall, Night

  Michael Palin (2010). “Full Circle”, p.177, Hachette UK

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• Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

  Jane Austen

  Together, Prejudice, Looks

  Jane Austen (2007). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.94, Bethany House

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• Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

  Jane Austen

  People, Savages, World

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• When you have a Dancing partner, there's always gonna be a moment where the girl's gonna cry, Ginger didn't do that. But, most every other girl I've worked with have cried because they said "aah, I can't do it" and I have to go "Yes, you can, Shut up!" and they do do it.

  Fred Astaire

  Girl, Yes You Can, Cry

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• Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

  Jim Butcher

  Women, Eye, Yellow

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• Derek caught my arm again as I started to move--at this rate, it was going to be as sore as my injured one. "Dog," he said, jerking his chin toward the fenced yard. "It was inside earlier." Expecting to see a Doberman slavering at the fence, I followed his gaze to a little puff of white fur, the kind of dog women stick in their purses. It wasn't even barking, just staring at us, dancing in place. "Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian." I glanced up at Derek. "It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dog, Moving, Thinking

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening: Number 2 in series”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Steps, Parenthood

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• Dancing. Come on. You can do it. It's a lot like navigating through a laser grid. It requires rhythm.' He moved her hips to the beat of the distant music. 'And patience.' He spun her around slowly and back toward him. 'And it's only fun if you trust your partner.' The dip was so slow, so smooth that Kat didn't know it was happening until the world was already turned upside down and Hale's face was inches from her own. Count me in, Kat.' He squeezed her tighter. 'You should always count me in.

  Ally Carter

  Fun, World, Down And

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• Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Nature, Two, People

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

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• I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

  W. H. Auden

  Grace, Should, Knows

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• Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could otherwise be dedicated to love.

  Toni Bentley

  Perfect, Energy, May

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• The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses—the imagination’s vision, & the imagination’s hearing—& the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Blood, Smell

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• He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Past, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.348, Pan Macmillan

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• But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.

  Dave Eggers

  Cities, People, Needs

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.223, Vintage

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• I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Reading, Recovery, Kissing

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.207, Penguin

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• Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.

  Lyall Watson

  Artist, Expression, Space

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• So basically I did this whole show carrying 100lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing – and then my tits explode at the end. It's not as easy as it looks!

  Lady Gaga

  Eye, Looks, Easy

  "Lady Gaga: the future of pop". Interview with Graeme Thomson, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Fighting, Thorough Knowledge, Europe

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.45, Chronicle Books

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• I don't see what's so good about being genuine. Clog dancing is genuine. Isn't being fake more of an achievement? At least it takes some inspiration. Like, sherbet dips, they're a special food. Think of all the additives and coloring and grinding that it takes to create a sherbet dip. But carrots? They're just out there, shrieking, "Hi, we're some carrots! Love us for it!" They never have to prove themselves.

  Emma Forrest

  Inspiration, Thinking, Fake

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• I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If I'm going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I'm happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I feel highs so ecstatic that just being normal feels like a thousand-mile drop and being unhappy is excruciating.

  Emma Forrest

  Girl, Unhappy, Want

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

  Charlaine Harris

  Trials, Goes On, Firsts

  Charlaine Harris (2008). “All Together Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.309, Penguin

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• You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Sadness, Sleep

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.

  Ted Hughes

  Dark, Giving, Water

  Ted Hughes (2009). “Birthday Letters”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

  John Green

  Writing, Funny Things, Ballet

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• Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Dream, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.118, Anchor

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