Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
~By Henny Youngman ~
The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
~By Bruce Schneier ~
Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
~By Ninette de Valois ~
But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.
~By Ardel Wray ~
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
~By Louise Brown ~
The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.
~By Ryan Stiles ~
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
~By Ginger Rogers ~
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.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
~By Paul A. Volcker ~
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Dancing is a sweat job.
~By Fred Astaire ~
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
~By Debra Messing ~
There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
~By James Brown ~
I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.
~By Fred Astaire ~
On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
~By Victoria Abril ~
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.
~By Mark McKinney ~
You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
~By Bob Barker ~
If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.
~By Neve Campbell ~
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.
~By Henry Ellis ~
Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.
~By Deborah Bull ~
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
~By Jane Austen ~
What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
~By Sally Rand ~
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.
~By Ray Conniff ~
Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
~By Carmen Electra ~
Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
~By Dan Fogelberg ~
I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.
~By Sydney Carter ~
I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
~By Steve Martin ~
My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.
~By Gene Kelly ~
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
~By Robert Palmer ~
Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited.
~By Richard Roxburgh ~
I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.
~By Catherine Zeta-Jones ~
Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.
~By Josh Duhamel ~
Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.
~By Giorgio Moroder ~
I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.
~By Emily Mortimer ~
Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
~By Clive James ~
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
~By Ann Beattie ~
Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.
~By John Lawson ~
I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.
~By Alexa Vega ~
And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.
~By Frank McCourt ~
I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
~By Zac Efron ~
Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!
~By Tom Bergeron ~
The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
~By Norman Granz ~
The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
The 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.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.
~By Buddy Hackett ~
I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.
~By Gene Kelly ~
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.
~By Rod Serling ~
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
~By Terence ~
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
~By Kate Bush ~
I adore dancing.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.
~By Louise Brown ~
I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.
~By Jimmy Swaggart ~
When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.
~By Nusrat F. A. Khan ~
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.
~By Vincente Minnelli ~
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
~By Clive Barnes ~
It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.
~By Tracey Emin ~
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
~By Mason Cooley ~
As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.
~By Sanjay Dutt ~
I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.
~By Stephanie Beacham ~
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
~By Breyten Breytenbach ~
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
~By Evander Holyfield ~
I knew I was happy when I was dancing.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.
~By Deborah Bull ~
In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.
~By Ben Stiller ~
How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.
~By George Murphy ~
There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
~By Matt Groening ~
You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
~By Bebe Neuwirth ~
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.
~By Norman Cook ~
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
~By Duffy Daugherty ~
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.
~By David Gallagher ~
Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.
~By Deborah Bull ~
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
~By Henry Fielding ~
When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see.
~By Pharrell Williams ~
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.
~By Blair Underwood ~
Dancing is my obsession. My life.
~By Mikhail Baryshnikov ~
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
~By Horace Walpole ~
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
~By E. T. A. Hoffmann ~
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.
~By Archie Shepp ~
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