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"Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek."
"Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance."
"But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe."
"I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back."
"A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped."
"Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor."
"We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars."
"Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing."
"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind."
"The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing."
"It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely."
"Music and dance are all you need."
"If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe."
"Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head."
"Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!"
"Dancing together in kirtans can help us develop friendships that no Mediation Therapy can."
"Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God."
"Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul"
"YOU CHEATING SCUM!” Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall’s reach. “YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B —” Professor McGonagall didn’t even bother to tell him off. She was actually shaking her finger in Malfoy’s direction, her hat had fallen off, and she too was shouting furiously."
"Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that Howard must be as brimful of ecstasy as she was; but to express these feelings out loud, when the news of death was still fresh in the air, would have been tantamount to dancing naked and shrieking obscenities, and Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside."
