Dancing Quotes

Most popular dancing quotes

Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. - Voltaire quote.
Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

reading

There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!

happiness

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.

dance

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. - Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

beliefs

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. - Agnes de Mille quote.
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color,
that makes a ballet dancer.
Dancing is a sweat job.  You can't just sit down and do it, you have to get up on your feet. - Fred Astaire quote.
Dancing is a sweat job.  You can't just sit down and do it, you have to get up on your feet.

sweat

Dancing is the body made poetic.
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
Dancing is a primal urge coming to life at the first moment we need to express joy.
Dancing, if done consistently and as part of a measured regimen is a form of life insurance.
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.
The poetry of the foot. - John Dryden quote.
The poetry of the foot.
To learn to dance is the most austere of disciplines. - Havelock Ellis quote.
To learn to dance is the most austere of disciplines.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.  It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. - Henry Fielding quote.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.  It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. - Martha Graham quote.
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.
Dancing is a contact sport. - Vince Lombardi quote.
Dancing is a contact sport.
You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. You can't dance out of the side of your mouth. - Shirley MacLaine quote.
You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. You can't dance out of the side of your mouth.
Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. - Christopher Morley quote.
Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

men and women

Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing. - Twyla Tharp quote.
Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing.

timing

Dancers are both athletes and artists. - Margot Fonteyn quote.
Dancers are both athletes and artists.
"Jumping for joy" is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer. - Margot Fonteyn quote.
"Jumping for joy" is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.
The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body. - Kahlil Gibran quote.
The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.
I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing. - Fred Astaire quote.
I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.
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To relax is difficult for me. I know it is important to have a sensible schedule and not to exaggerate, but I am like a horse used to pulling a great load. I can't begin to think what would happen if I stopped dancing.
If everyone knew how physically cruel dancing really is, nobody would watch—only those people who enjoy bull fights. - Margot Fonteyn quote.
If everyone knew how physically cruel dancing really is, nobody would watch—only those people who enjoy bull fights.
My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music.
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I danced with passion to spite the music.
The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.
Dancing is silent poetry.