Dancing Quotes

Dancing Is a Perpendicular Expression of a Horizontal Desire. (George Bernard Shaw)
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. View quote
Chinua Achebe
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. View quote
Steve Martin
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. View quote
Jane Austen
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war. View quote
Homer
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. View quote
Frank Zappa
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. (Havelock Ellis)
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. View quote
Molière
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. View quote
Christopher Morley
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... View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around, that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people. View quote
Rahul Gandhi
The true human being ... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities. View quote
David Zindell
All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. View quote
William Cowper
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. View quote
William Butler Yeats
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. (Rod Serling)
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means... View quote
Martha Graham
Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. View quote
Martin Mull
Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit. View quote
Judith Jamison