Dancing Quotes - Page 45

Dancing cheek to cheek.

The fabrics I've used in my work are satin and sateen. Sateen is very glossy and far from luxurious. Bright solid colors with too much sheen seem gaudy, pathetic and nostalgia-inducing. Such fabrics are reminiscent of the power of chaos in a shaman's space: overabundant offerings of food on alters, kitschy decorations, provocative shades, vigorous dancing, plaintive singing, absurd fits of crying and laughing, and self-abandonment.

But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.

When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.

The quivering of Psyche's butterflies.

I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

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.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all.

But it is never over; nothing ends until we want it to. Look, in shattered midnights, On black ice under silver trees, We are still dancing, dancing.

I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing.

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

When my woman kisses me I start dancing like James Brown. Ow! I Feel Good!

Actually I'm more passionate about dancing than I am about singing.

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.

In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.

A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life. At the same time, they have an incredibly rigorous training schedule.

There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life.