Dance Sayings & Quotes

Dance Sayings & Quotes

These dance sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. - Gustave Flaubert


Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. - Erica Mann Jong


Life's a dance you learn as you go, Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow, Don't worry 'bout what you don't know, Life's a dance you learn as you go. - John Michael Montgomery


Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt. - Mark Twain


But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall! - Alexander Pope


An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. - Mata Hari


Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. - Martha Graham


The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. - Isadora Duncan


On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined. - Martha Graham


Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death. - Colette Dowling


We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigour, the mystery, the humour, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. - Martha Graham


When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil. - Dale Carnegie


An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art form, an astonishing development for what until recently had been considered manna for aesthetes only, the quiche of the performing arts. - Shana Alexander


A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks. - Helen Keller