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brujo
12-19-2005, 07:34 PM
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances. — Maya Angelou

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. — Fred Astaire

A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech. — Francis Bacon

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. — Samuel Beckett

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. Its the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy. — Jacques D'Amboise

To dance is to be out of yourself, larger, more powerful, more beautiful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking. — Agnes de Mille

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. — Isadora Duncan

Life isn't choreographed. That's why I fall down a lot. — Sacha Duncan

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. — Martha Graham

Movement never lies. — Martha Graham, quoting her father

Dance is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire. — Unknown

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? . . . How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance? — Hermann Hesse

Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not then no matter, go right on doing what you love. — Louis Horst

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. — Friedrich Nietzsche

O body swayed to music, o brightening glance, how can we know the dancer from the dance? — William Butler Yeats

Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and she did it backwards and in high heels. — Faith Whittlesey , former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland. Responsibility for this quote also has been traced to a 1982 Frank and Ernest cartoon.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. — Unknown

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. — Vince Lombardi

The self is a dance, constantly in motion. Gabrielle Roth

Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing. Gabrielle Roth

When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer. Gabrielle Roth

dancersdreamland
12-23-2005, 11:42 AM
If you like these, you may also want to check out http://www.dancersdreamland.com/fun/fun_quotes.htm.

Twilight_Elena
12-24-2005, 03:46 PM
Life isn't choreographed. That's why I fall down a lot. — Sacha Duncan

I like this one the best. Which one do you like the best?

Twilight Elena

pygmalion
12-24-2005, 03:53 PM
Great quotes, brujo and ddl. Thanks. :D

dancersdreamland
12-27-2005, 12:46 PM
After a quick scan, I think this is my favorite from this listing...

Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not then no matter, go right on doing what you love. — Louis Horst