Dance Quotes

I dance with hopes and sing along with possibilities.

~ Debasish Mridha

There are different forms of seduction, and the kind I have witnessed in Persian dancers is so unique, such a mixture of subtlety and brazenness, I cannot find a Western equivalent to compare it to. I have seen women of vastly different backgrounds take on that same expression: a hazy, lazy, flirtatious look in their eyes. . . . This sort of seduction is elusive; it is sinewy and tactile. It twists, twirls, winds and unwinds. Hands curl and uncurl while the waist seems to coil and recoil. . . . It is openly seductive but not surrendering.

~ Azar Nafisi

Failure is always louder than success. But there is an accumulation of all the things you don’t do wrong, and that becomes your confidence. You can even get to the point where that confidence lasts longer than the dance. Seconds at first. Then minutes. Then maybe it’ll be there when you’re walking into a party, or meeting people after a show. You know you have something desirable, and you know you can move.

~ David Levithan

Emma was horrified and transfixed at the same time. She was watching Jonah Kinlock doing what he did best. There was a certain macabre beauty in watching form and function wedded together. In Jonah's case, a dance of beauty and death.

~ Cinda Williams Chima

Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete.

~ Marty Rubin

When you dance, you measure distance as if it’s a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us.

~ David Levithan

If you’re not already at practice after watching BC One, you’re fucking up.

~ Mohammed Iro

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.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father’s study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

~ Rick Yancey

Be like a peacock and dance with all of your beauty.

~ Debasish Mridha

Learn to dance in the storm so when life hands you a stormy weather, you just glide through it

~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.

~ Paul Russell

For the company to assemble at a late hour and engage in unusual, exciting and severe exercise throughout the entire night, is often too great a tax upon the physical system. To dress too thinly, and in a state of perspiration to be exposed, as ladies at the ball frequently are, to draughts of cold, is oftentimes to plant the seeds of a disease from which they never recover. Again, to come in contact, as ladies are liable to, more especially at the public ball, with disreputable men, is sometimes to form alliances that will make a lifetime of sorrow.' —Thomas E. Hill, Evils of the Ball, 1883

~ Alice Simpson

This was different. It had synths droning and sending saltwater waves under my feet. It had drumbeats bursting like fireworks, rumbling the furniture out of place, and then a crazy, irregular, disharmonious, spiral crescendo of pure electric noise, like a typhoon dragging our bodies into it. It featured brass orchestras and choirs of mermaids and a piano in Iceland, all of them right there, visible, touchable, in Axton House. It shook us, fucked us, suspended us far above the reach of Help bouncing on his hind legs. It spoke of magenta sunsets and plastic patio chairs growing moss under summer storms rolling on caterpillar tracks. It sprinkled a bokeh of car lights rushing through night highways and slapped our faces like the wind at a hundred and twenty miles an hour. It pictured Niamh playing guitar, washed up naked on a beach in Fiji.

~ Edgar Cantero

Dancing is to music what a beloved wife is to her husband. Both of them are so in love, you can't separate them.

~ Paul Bamikole

Do you dance? Or are you strictly a prop-up-the-wall-with-a-beer kind of guy?I dance. But I don't shag.She laughed. I think we've just established that you do.Not Austin Powers shagging. It's A Carolina thing. A dance.

~ Virginia Kantra

I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can’t write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers.

~ Chelsey Philpot

Growing up in NYC,The broken sidewalks, graffiti filled subways, and humid Laundromats, did not offer solace. I found solace in the strings of my violin, in my ballet slippers at the studio, and while gazing at frescoes in the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was always in the Arts that my soul was replenished.

~ Susan Anne Russell

No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.

~ Marquita Burke-Dejesus

Life is the muse which perfectly rhymes,Plays with the words and fills empty lines.For some, life is battle for others, it’s danceFor rich it is a party for the poor it is chance.For lovers, it’s dizziness, it’s a dream, it’s romanceFor Artist it’s drop of the rain on his hands.For a writer, it’s a story for an actor it’s stageFor painter it’s a canvas for thief, it’s the cage.For you it might be the money you blewFor someone the entire life could be you!

~ Nino Varsimashvili

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.

~ Julia Quinn

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

A light like the glint of water on dewy grass flashed from under her feet as she danced.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

Watching dance isn't about picking up moves. It's about noting the relationships between motion and space and rhythm to absorb a greater concept

~ Kathryn Craft

This maze is laid out such that should you step through the correct path, by its end you will have learned the most extraordinary dance, such that any coronation would be proud to see you at the height of its feast, such that any holy dervish would weep and call you his devotion.I think that is very strange—All things are strange which are worth knowing.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

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.

~ Lesa Howard

We danced forever, and not nearly long enough. Now that I faced him, I could touch him, too, rather than self-consciously drip through his fingers. I explored his back, fingertips discovering ridges of his spine, muscles, a place below his left shoulder blade that made him writhe, as if struggling not to laugh. I tickled him again, devouring the sensation of his chest against my cheek.

~ Jodi Meadows

It was so much more. You allowed your feelings to spill onto the stage in a way everyone in that room could relate to. Angela inspired it, perhaps, but the specifics you chose made a universal statement. That is the art of choreography.

~ Kathryn Craft

Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.

~ Lynn C. Tolson

Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.

~ Pitigrilli

Love songs or poetry?Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music.And you can't dance to poetry.

~ Amy Harmon

I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body.

~ Dele Olanubi Via Bealightinthedark

Dancing can be addictive if you like it.

~ J. Lynn

You're not allowed to have legs and not use them.Dance.

~ Dianna Hardy

May I see your dance card?”“Don’t you believe me?” She presented it to him with a flourish.He ran his fingers down the list of names.“Hmm . . . Waterburn? Bastard. D’Andre. Definitely a worthless bastard. Lord Camber, a thoroughgoing bastard. Lord Michaelson? Bastard. Peter Cheswick? Bast—”She snatched it from him, laughing.“I wouldn’t dance a waltz with you, anyway, Lord Dryden.”“No?”“You might accidentally lock eyes with Lisbeth Redmond, stumble, and fling me across the room to avoid crushing my feet.

~ Julie Anne Long

Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.

~ Margaret Laurence

The waltz was the only way a young couple could touch one another, and even through gloves I could feel the heat of your grandfather's touch,'she'd tell Luc, with a wicked glimmer in her eye.

~ Fiona Mcintosh

Get your dance on today...move some energy around...visualize everything as you want it to be...Fullness, Completeness...You!

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

For when Iwaltzed with Chris, I'd made him someone else.

~ V.c. Andrews