If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?
~By Martin Gardner ~
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
~By Barry Humphries ~
When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.
~By Evander Holyfield ~
How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.
~By George Murphy ~
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
~By Robert Palmer ~
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
~By E. T. A. Hoffmann ~
Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.
~By Heidi Klum ~
Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.
~By Sydney Carter ~
Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited.
~By Richard Roxburgh ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
~By Mason Cooley ~
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
~By Eddie Van Halen ~
I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.
~By Alexa Vega ~
Dancing is a sweat job.
~By Fred Astaire ~
You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
~By Bob Barker ~
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 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 ~
On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
~By Victoria Abril ~
And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.
~By William Hung ~
In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
~By Breyten Breytenbach ~
Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club.
~By Ruth Buzzi ~
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 ~
It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.
~By Tracey Emin ~
I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
I never really did any disco dancing.
~By Barry Gibb ~
I use dancing to embellish, extend or enlarge upon an existing emotion.
~By Gower Champion ~
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 ~
I knew I was happy when I was dancing.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
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 ~
One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
~By Allison Janney ~
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 ~
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 ~
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
Dancing came easy to me.
~By Hedda Hopper ~
To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.
~By Mikhail Baryshnikov ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.
~By Neil Innes ~
I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.
~By Cesar Romero ~
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'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
~By Dwayne Johnson ~
I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.
~By Deborah Bull ~
I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.
~By William Kempe ~
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 ~
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 ~
I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
~By Black Elk ~
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.
~By Michael Flatley ~
Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.
~By Judith Jamison ~
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 ~
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 Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
~By Doris Humphrey ~
Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
~By Ninette de Valois ~
Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.
~By Simone Schwarz-Bart ~
We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.
~By Verne Troyer ~
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.
~By Gregory Hines ~
The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
~By Norman Granz ~
I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
~By Bebe Neuwirth ~
Dancing is my obsession. My life.
~By Mikhail Baryshnikov ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
~By Jane Austen ~
One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
~By Paula Abdul ~
Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.
~By Ronnie Spector ~
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
~By Dan Fogelberg ~
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
~By Henry Fielding ~
And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
~By Jami Gertz ~
Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.
~By Ellen Muth ~
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 ~
Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit.
~By Judith Jamison ~
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
~By Linda Lavin ~
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
~By Hal Borland ~
We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.
~By Chris Frantz ~
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 ~
Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see.
~By Pharrell Williams ~
I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
~By Natalie Portman ~
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
~By Clive Barnes ~
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
~By Duffy Daugherty ~
I adore dancing.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!
~By Tom Bergeron ~
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