Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing."
Dancing quotes
Dancing
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Charley Harper
Artist
"A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo."
Gabrielle Roth
Dancer
"The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat."
John Keats
Poet
"Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul."
Gabrielle Roth
Dancer
"Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves."
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"We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity."
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"All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?"
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"Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
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"Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following."
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"The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place."
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"Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together."
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"Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window."
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"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused."
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"Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability."
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"Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done."
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"So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."
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"I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing."
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"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."
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"Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound."
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"It's just life, so keep dancing through."
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"A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having."
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"Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience."
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"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."
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"I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them. I don't like all the singing, dancing and all the dramatic crying. I have never seen a Bollywood film in my life."
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"Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience."
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