But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.
~By Jessica Hagedorn ~
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.
~By Paul Kane ~
Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.
~By Robert Stack ~
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
~By Augustus Hare ~
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
~By Clive Barnes ~
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
~By Max Nordau ~
The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.
~By Catherine McAuley ~
I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.
~By Carmen Electra ~
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
~By Ezra Pound ~
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.
~By Fred Astaire ~
I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
~By Alexander Woollcott ~
No sane man will dance.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
~By Faith Ford ~
For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
~By Nick Rahall ~
Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
~By Cheryl Crawford ~
It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.
~By Matthew Bourne ~
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
~By Bob Woodward ~
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.
~By Shana Alexander ~
I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.
~By Sheena Easton ~
Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.
~By Sanjay Dutt ~
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
~By Marie Windsor ~
All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
~By Bill Murray ~
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
~By G. Stanley Hall ~
I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.
~By Deborah Bull ~
Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.
~By Jack Davenport ~
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
~By Vaughn Monroe ~
I hope Britney doesn't get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying it, it's me. Lindsey would never say that. She's an actress first. It's just a bonus that she can dance and sing.
~By Virginia Madsen ~
When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.
~By Emile Hirsch ~
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
~By Robert Wagner ~
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~By Xenophon ~
Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
~By James Lovelock ~
The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
~By James Broughton ~
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.
~By Merce Cunningham ~
At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.
~By James Mooney ~
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.
~By Agnes de Mille ~
When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.
~By John Hughes ~
That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone "mainstream."
~By Cesar Romero ~
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
~By Ninette de Valois ~
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.
~By Jermaine Dupri ~
Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.
~By Gwen Verdon ~
My first vocation was dance.
~By Victoria Abril ~
I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.
~By Stan Lee ~
Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
~By Cecil Taylor ~
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
~By Sean O'Casey ~
I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.
~By Derek Jeter ~
So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.
~By Yvonne Strahovski ~
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Disco is just pop music you can dance to.
~By Sheena Easton ~
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
~By Alfred Adler ~
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.
~By Maya Angelou ~
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.
~By Roy Rogers ~
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.
~By Deborah Bull ~
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
~By Jane Porter ~
In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
~By Charles Tupper ~
Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.
~By Guy Madison ~
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
~By Douglas Bader ~
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
~By Martha Graham ~
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
~By Barbara Bush ~
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
~By Margaret Mead ~
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
~By Tom Brokaw ~
In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.
~By Chris Brown ~
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
~By Orson Welles ~
I used to teach dance lessons.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
~By Robert Duvall ~
Dance is so joyous.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.
~By Ben Affleck ~
Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.
~By Frank Woolley ~
They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.
~By Dizzy Gillespie ~
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
~By Matthew Fox ~
I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.
~By Donna Mills ~
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