Just Dance Quotes - Page 5

• The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Mirrors, Dancing

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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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  The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Lying, Women

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Dance, Dancing, Lasts

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• Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Angel, Flames

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.102, Penguin

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• The dance is the mother of all languages.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Dance, Mother, Dancing

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• When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're
  corresponding with each other by the moves that you make. It's a love affair, between you and your partner and
  the music. You feel the music, you feel your partner, she feels you and she feels the music. So there the three of
  you are together. You've got a triangle, you know. Which one do you love best?

  Frankie Manning

  Dance, Moving, Love Is

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• The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.

  Herman Melville

  Girl, Dance, Eye

  Herman Melville (1860). “Typee : a peep at polynesian life, during a four months residence in a valley of the Marquesas”, p.179

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• Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dance, Writing, Echoes

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• Nothing is more revealing than movement.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Dancing, Movement

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• The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Dance, Dancing, Body

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

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• To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Falling In Love, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.99, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

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• Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Life, Dance, Being Yourself

  "Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎" by Margot Fonteyn, (p. 81), 1975.

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• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• If you can walk, you can run.

  Publilius Syrus

  Music, Dance, Running

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• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dance, Work, Advice

  What's Wrong with theWorld pt. 4, ch. 14 (1910)

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• They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Dance, Food, Moon

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dance, Dancing, Soul

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• I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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

  Confucius

  Dance, Men, Giving

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• Love like you'll never be hurt.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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• Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

  Wendy Buonaventura

  Dancing, Dancer, Great Dance

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• Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Dance, Dancing

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.79, Penguin

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