Quotes about dancing
John Dryden -
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
Aishabella Sheikh - Entwined
Dancing with heartbreak is the strangest thing. It's like playing with fire you know you'll get burnt but you are still captivated by the flickering flame and the magnetic heat.
Andrew Holleran - Dancer from the Dance
What, we may well ask, is there left to live for? Why get out of bed? For this dreary round of amusing insincerity? This filthy bourgeois society that the Aristotelians have foisted upon us? No, we may still choose to live like gods, like poets. Which brings us down to dancing. Yes,” he said, turning to Malone, “that is all that’s left when love has gone.
Martha Graham -
Dance is the hidden language of the soul
Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing
It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You’ll probably get kicked in the face.
Robert Fulghum - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The band faded. The crowd cheered. The Indian held up his hands for silence as if to make a speech. Looking at the band and then the crowd, the Indian said, "Well, what're you waiting for? Let's DANCE.
Torron-Lee Dewar - 50 Ways to Become a Better Choreographer
Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we like doing if we want to excel in whatever it is we're focusing on.
Chloe Thurlow - Sophie's Secret
When you dance, your whole body dances, your skin and bones, your soul, The tips of your fingers and the roots of your hair. When you stop dancing you stop living.
Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
Hidden by diaphanous clouds of mist and fog floating gracefully over vales of heather and flowing runnels, she began to dance.
Marty Rubin -
The real rain dance is when the rain dances.
Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
He dances all night, utterly naked and composed of nothing but six and a half feet of pale sinew. He could dance to a field of crickets, to the sound of rain on a tin roof, to a stampede.
Lie Kjeldsen -
You are a good dancer in your soul. Let's release it!
Julia Quinn - The Sum of All Kisses
Music was not so very different from mathematics. It was all just patterns and sequences. The only difference was that they hung in the air instead of on a piece of paper. Dancing was a grand equation. One side was sound, the other movement. The dancer's job was to make them equal.
Lesa Howard - Phantom's Dance
Without any music, I started to dance. I wanted the music to be inside me, or at least for it to appear that way. I imagined myself the lead with an audience here to see me perform in a famous ballet. In my fantasy, there was no panic attack. I was free to dance. Free to be me.
Pitigrilli - Cocaine
Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.
Dianna Hardy - Heart Of The Wolf
You're not allowed to have legs and not use them.Dance.
V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the Attic
For when Iwaltzed with Chris, I'd made him someone else.
V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the Attic
Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly onCory's guitar. "Dance, ballerina, dance," he softly chanted, and hissinging voice wasn't bad at all. Maybe we could work as musicians---atrio -if Carrie ever recovered enough to want a voice again.
Kim Cormack -
I should have danced more when I had no fear of falling.
Aphra Behn - and Chorus
You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.
Anita Diamant - Good Harbor
I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
Ruth Wind - Light of Day
He danced the way he made love, with passion and tenderness and spirit, communicating with hands and eyes the most subtle messages, tenderly making up for Lila's awkwardness. In his lashes and his hair, mist clung in tiny diamond drops. She could not take her eyes from him.
Guy Mankowski -
We act as a conduit for the observers’ unexpressed desires, the silent appreciation they may contain for anything; a lover, a river, a building even
Rachel Hollis - Party Girl
Tequila makes me dream up things like dance battles.
Carew Papritz - his Final Gift
Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots.
Francine Pascal - Once Upon a Time
I just can’t wait to get out of Sweet Valley,' Jessica explained. 'I feel like I’ve been dancing with the same ten cute guys my whole life.
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Back at home, after some prodding from Tereza, he admitted that he had been jealous watching her dance with a colleague of his. "You mean you were really jealous?" she asked him ten times or more, incredulously, as though someone had just informed her she had been awarded a Nobel Peace prize. Then she put her arm around his waist and began dancing across the room. The step she used was not the one she had shown off in the bar. It was more like a village polka, a wild romp that sent her legs flyi
Thomas Howard -
The incarnation took all that properly belongs to our humanity and delivered it back to us, redeemed. All of our inclinations and appetites and capacities and yearnings are purified and gathered up and glorified by Christ. He did not come to thin out human life; He came to set it free. All the dancing and feasting and processing and singing and building and sculpting and baking and merrymaking that belong to us, and that were stolen away into the service of false gods, are returned to us in the
Seanan McGuire -
When the Root and Branch were young, when the Rose still grew unplucked upon the tree; when all our lands were new and green and we danced without care, then, we were immortal... We left those lands for the world where time dwells, dancing, that we might see the passage of the sun and the growing of the world. Here we may die, and where we can fall, and here King ___ has stopped his dancing.
Trevor Driggers -
Just take my hand &let us dance under a chandelier of starlight.
Trevor Driggers -
Just take my hand & let us dance under a chandelier of starlight.
Calista Lynne - We Awaken
And i've just kept dancing. I don't know if i've overcome these things, but the music never stopped, so neither did I.
Tom Ryan - Tag Along
The thing I've never understood about dancing till now is that it only looks stupid when you're on the outside, watching other people do it. When you're part of the crowd, moving along with everyone else, I can't imagine anything else being quite as much fun.
Amy Poehler -
Looking silly can be very powerful. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom. People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth and being chased in a fun way.
Jennifer Starzec - Determination
I could feel the bite of the autumn air, warning us all of the harsh winter that was on its way.
Patricia A. McKillip - Alphabet of Thorn
Once I used my powers. Now I feel like a dancing instructor, reminding the queen whom she is dancing with at this hour and with which foot she should begin.''Be thankful,' Gavin advised with a laugh, 'that so far the music is still being played and everyone is trying to dance in harmony.
Charles Portis -
I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.
Ana Blaze - Love and Other Games
Amy let him lead her to the dance area. She gasped when he immediately tugged her body against his. Clearly Erik had not learned the dance rules taught at St. Francis High School. He didn’t leave room for air, much less a holy presence.
Hope Alcocer -
Behind every dancer there’s someone that broke her, a song that moved her, a moment that inspired her and a dance floor that healed her.
Katherine Rundell -
It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen -
Every atom in your body spins and danceslike a bee around the queen,like a whirling dervish,like the stars spiraling in a galaxy.Yet why do you sit motionlessly watching Dancing With the Stars?
Oliver Gaspirtz -
It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.
Padma Venkatraman - A Time to Dance
You don't have to climb ladders to reach God. He dances within all He creates.
Isabel Lopez - Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams
There isn’t a dance that can compare to the gaiety, the timing and cohesiveness of hand maneuvers, the provoca-tive movements in unison of an upbeat salsa dance. The sweating, the writhing bodies, the facial expressions; the start of a moderate sensual beat climaxing in the middle to a crescendo and then ending with a slower consummation is like making love in its most exquisite form.
Amber Dawn - Sub Rosa
I swung my hips around like I unscrewed at the waist.
Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
The flick of her hip is distilled erotica, a practiced sexuality.
Kiera Cass - The Siren
I can text in complete sentences. Oh, yeah, it’s a skill.” He smiled, proud of his accomplishments. “And, thanks to my mom being a competitive dancer as a teen, I know how to do the Lindy hop and the jitterbug.”I sat bolt upright, and Akinli rolled his eyes.“I swear, if you tell me you can jitterbug, I’m going to . . . I don’t even know. Set something on fire. No one can dance like that.”I pursed my lips and dusted off my shoulder, a thing I’d seen Elizabeth do when she was bragging.As if he was
V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the Attic
I saw myself dancing alone, always alone,
M.F. Moonzajer - A moment with God ; Poetry
They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul.
Flynn Meaney - The Boy Recession
So that's how we end up helping Aviva pick out a male escort. Even Darcy is impressed with Eugene's organization; each profile in the boy binder has two pictures, a head shot and a full-body shot, and lists essential information: age, school, height, weight, extracurriculars, hobbies, and dance ability (which ranges from "occasional Dance Dance Revolution participation" to "so good he could back up the Biebs").
Lisa Daily - Single-Minded
Dance, cher?” he asks, his blue eyes playful. I nod and he pulls me gently into his arms. He’s warm. We sway to the music and the gentle rocking of the boat. His hand rests on the small of my back, in that sweet spot that makes you feel feminine and protected and adored all at once.
Amanda Bretz - Finding Justus
Justus tried to make an objective assessment of Miguel. What was the big deal with him, anyway? So he was easy on the eyes. Actually that was an understatement; he was for female eyes, a virtual feast. He was a perfect physical specimen, and very sensual. He seemed to positively ooze sex and eroticism with his every move, look, and touch. Justus turned her head toward him to steal a glance at his profile, but he caught her looking at him.His eyes were so arresting, they were a dark, fierce green
Hongzhi Zhengjue -
Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deitiesAnd you will be able to compose your own tune.Then you and I, united, will clap hands joyously,Singing 'tum-tiddly-um tum-tiddly-um-tum.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing.
Mark Helprin - Refiner's Fire
They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews prove successful, the new state would be filled with dancers and musicians, but especially dancers, for dancing like nothing else says: I am still alive.
Debasish Mridha -
Life is a dancing dew drop on the tip of a leaf.
Nayana Currimbhoy - Miss Timmins' School for Girls
I really knew nothing about the dancing habits of the Scottish. But I wanted to help. "I could teach them Indian folk dances," I offered, scrounging my mind for school dances in gaudy garments."Well, I'm not sure that they would be complex enough for competitions," she said. Pursing her lips, she blushed a dark, deep red. I knew I had said something wrong, but it took me a few days to understand the reason for Miss Manson's disapproval and discomfort. She blushed a beetroot red because I had unw
Allie Burke - Paper Souls
It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.
Martina Boone - Illusion
Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.
Karen Quan - Better to be able to love than to be loveable
You be the sun, I'll be the moon, let's share the stars and dance in the sky.
Lisa Daily - Single-Minded
I rock in his arms under the stars and the blanket of night air, unwilling or unable to tear myself away.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes
While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can't.
Isabel Allende - Island Beneath the Sea
I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession of me, drives away distress and sweetens my memory. The world trembles.
Michael Biondi -
We are not from here, my dear. So:Let the flames take over our bodies,‘cause I wanna merely burn with you.And we can dance until we become ashes,but don’t you dare leave me when we become pointless dust.Because this is when we canfinally blow away with the wind,back to that place where lovewas once real...
Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays
Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober.
Debasish Mridha -
You are the beloved child of this universe, so live as if everything is yours. Every morning the sun is rising for you. The rays of light are kissing you, birds are singing for you, flowers are dancing for you, and everything belongs to you.
Jennifer Lopez -
I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.
Cassandra Clare - The Rise of the Hotel Dumort
You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it.""When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?
Yevgeny Zamyatin - The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
More wine for me, pour me some more!" "You smart girl, I knew you're a smart girl, just teasing...” Faces turn red, the dark earth blood is rising. They wink at Pelka, wink at the host: "He knows his goods!" The women feel the buttons constricting them - they undo one, another, a third. By twos the guests go outside to get some air. "Well, my dear guests, are you soaked to the gills? Eh? And now-to dance! Get lively!" The table and the chairs vanish. The middle of the room is empty. Ivan the
C.M. Stunich - Bad Nanny
Please don't sing and dance," I whisper, but it's too late. He's snapping his fingers and doing this sexy groove to the music. It should look really stupid - and it kind of does - but with his tight abs and his tattoos and piercings, it's really just...precious.
E.L. Todd - Monday
Dancing was like sex, and I knew when she and I were together it would be amazing. Physical desire and lust had nothing to do with it. We just understood when the other person would move before the actually did it.
Erin McCarthy - Hot Finish
Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”“Because I love you. Because I love you so much I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make it go differently this time.”... "Because we should be a married couple, because I never wanted to not be married to you. Because all these men out here dancing with their wives can’t possibly love them as much as I love you. Because for me, there is only one woman, and I’m sorry to break it to you, but you’re it.
Rose Gordon - Her Secondhand Groom
What’s your rank of choice?”Juliet started, nearly spilling her cup of lemonade. “Pardon?”Drake gestured to all the other men in the room. “Every rank from a duke down to a second son who became a vicar is available for your choosing. Any rank strike your fancy?”“I believe you’re incorrect,” she said, looking over all the men in the room. “I see one second son-vicar, one baron―” she turned to him―“one viscount, two earls, and one duke. But alas, no marquis.”His brown eyes lit with mischief. “I’d
Lord Byron -
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn when Youth and Pleasure meet.
Cicero -
No man in his senses will dance.
John Milton -
Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
Terence -
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
Amit Kalantri - One Bucket of Tears
Dance was her style, dance was her fashion.
Glenda Millard - A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she'd rush away again.
Debasish Mridha -
This is a beautiful morning; the sun is rising with a smiling face. Everything around me is alive and smiling. Everything is whispering in my ear to enjoy every moment and enjoy the morning. My heart is dancing with you, with morning light.
Mary Jane Hathaway - Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread
I have a bad feeling about this,” she said. “We’ll fake it. And if push comes to shove, we can just sing Goober Peas and waltz around.” “Rebecca might not find that very funny.” “Rebecca is a Northerner. You can tell because there aren’t any cheese straws on the snack table.
Katherine Locke - Second Position
I used to move gracefully. I used to know the word grace to the center of my bones. Now I seek it every day and fall short, inevitably, every day. I lost grace.
Terry Goodkind - Blood of the Fold
Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.
Tanzy Sayadi - Better to be able to love than to be loveable
You were just another stranger in the room,In a room full of bodies, I was attracted to you,I became your tiny dancer,I became everything to you,Little did you know,That I'm just a dancer, Not your fool.
Taylor Patton -
Doubt quit stopping by when I started staying out late, dancing in a flood of self assurance discovered when holding your hand.
Jay Woodman -
Dancing to the sounds of trees and stones and slow minutes ticking in our hearts and bones.
Michael Benzehabe -
Saul had gained his six-foot frame at sixteen, but his muscles didn’t arrive until his early twenties. Between those lost years, he was a gangly, uncoordinated klutz. He was told that he could improve his dancing by watching himself in the mirror. He tried. What he saw was so repulsive that he resolved never to inflict himself on a dance partner. These days, Saul hid those memories behind weight lifting and jogging. His new athletic physique hid his aimless decade as an outsider, an odd and lone
Crystal Woods - liQUID PROse QUOtes
I dreamt that @mark_wahlberg and his wife were our neighbors and we had dance parties in our living room and drank wine from solo cups. Everyone said I danced like I was doing parkour, and everyone laughed, until I fell off the roof and broke my neck.-Crystal Woods and Jarod Kintz
Evan Fallenberg - When We Danced on Water
He can hum the music in his old man's quivering voice, but he prefers it in his head, where it lives on in violins and reedy winds. If he imagines it in rehearsal he can remember every step of his three-minute solo as if he had danced it only yesterday, but he knows, too, that one time, onstage in Berlin, he had not danced it as he had learned it; this much he knows but cannot recreate, could no recreate it even a moment after he had finished dancing it. While dancing he had felt blind to the st
Brian Friel - Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing as if language had surrendered to movement - as if this ritual, this wordless ceremony, was now the way to speak, to whisper private and sacred things, to be in touch with some otherness. Dancing as if the very heart of life and all its hopes might be found in those assuaging notes and those hushed rhythms and in those silent and hypnotic movements. Dancing as if language no longer existed because words were no longer necessary...
Rebecca McNutt - Super 8: The Sequel to Smog City
The print was an old one made from a negative taken in the 1960’s of her parents in Sydney Mines, dancing with thrilled, excited expressions on their faces, in front of a classic car that had been a wedding gift at the time. Her mother’s hair, red back then, was held back by a blue handkerchief, and she was dressed in a billowing skirt and white blouse. Her father’s denim jeans and faded t-shirt were streaked with coal dust as he held her hands and spun her around in the front yard of their old
Laura Esquivel - Pierced by the Sun
Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely.
Virginia Alison -
I want your scent to intoxicate my passions to the point where lust is merely a word, dancing upon our flames of desire...
Mary E. Pearson - The Kiss of Deception
A perfect night... a perfect forever
Lynda Barry - One Hundred Demons
The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away.I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.
Laura Kasischke - White Bird in a Blizzard
I began to understand that dancing well had everything to do with believing you could. Like those dreams of flying- dipping gracefully through the air in your weightless body- if in your sleep, you stopped to think about it for more than half a second, you'd crash like a sack of dead ducks onto the roof of a church.
Laurie Brown - What Would Jane Austen Do?
What a magical place," she whispered in an awed voice. "I expect a unicorn or fairies to appear.""What would the fairies be doing?" Shermont asked. "Waltzing with the butterflies," she answered before thinking.
lauren klarfeld -
A girl who travels has learned how to dance barefoot. She’s learned to place her toes in the sand and dance through rhythm, not through rehearsed footwork. She’s learned to follow what she likes, not what she needs to like.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Bold people dance happily when they are confronted with life’s adventures... they see themselves going through with smiles... Give no excuse for being a coward. Be bold!