Dancing Quotes - Page 5

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

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet Class, Play

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• Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dance, Dream, Ballet Class

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• Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

  John James Audubon

  Dull, Mathematics, Geography

  "Writings and drawings".

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• Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every town in America.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Pride, America, Lust

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• What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Night, People, May

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1892). “Trumpet Blasts, Or Mountain-top Views of Life: Comprising the Most Earnest Reasonings, Delightful Narratives, Poetic Imageries, Striking Similies, Fearless Denunciations of Wrong and Inspiring Appeals for the Right, that During His Whole Phenonomenal Career Have Been Given to the World”

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• I love to go and mingle with the young
  In the gay festal room--when every heart
  Is beating faster than the merry tune,
  And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips
  Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks
  Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.238

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• Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

  Horace Bushnell

  Feelings, Delicacy, Danger

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

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspiring, Dance, Sports

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

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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, Generosity, Meditation

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• So, I'm on Sesame Street, walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. Sesame Street is just a crazy great place to be.

  Feist

  Fun, Stupid, Crazy

  "Headed for the top". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

  David Byrne

  Dance, Shakes

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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dance, Art, Positivity

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

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• Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Ballet, Mind

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.145

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  The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Real, School

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• Nothing is more revealing than movement.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Movement, Revealing

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• Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

  Margaret Mead

  Love, Dance, Song

  "Margaret Mead: A Life". Book by Jane Howard, 1984.

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• I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Thinking, Done

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• Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Relationship, Anniversary

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• Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Travel, Climbing, Slaughterhouse Five

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

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

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Ballet Class, Discipline

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• What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

  Paul Volcker

  Business, Real, Getting High

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• Dancing is the body made poetic.

  Ernst Bacon

  Dance, Ballet, Body

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, People, Mind

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.151, Wild Jot Press

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