Dance Quotes - page 2

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do. (Aaliyah)
It's better to dance than to march through life. View quote
Yoko Ono
It's like if you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either. View quote
Maeve Binchy
No sane man will dance. View quote
Cicero
I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. View quote
Margaret Atwood
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. View quote
Maya Angelou
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. View quote
Frank McCourt
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. View quote
Alice Walker
It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age They were not such a plague when I was young What else have I to spur me into song. View quote
William Butler Yeats
When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave of the sea. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Little Fly, Thy summers play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am I not like thee Or art not thou A man like Me For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. View quote
William Blake
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Happier of happy though I be, like them; I cannot take possession of the sky, Mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, One of a mighty multitude whose way; And motion is a harmony and dance; Magnificent. View quote
William Wordsworth
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. View quote
William Wordsworth
Ten thousand saw I at a glance; Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. View quote
William Wordsworth
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. View quote
Confucius
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle. (Martha Graham)
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. View quote
Martha Graham
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living. View quote
Martha Graham
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. View quote
Satchel Paige