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“anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did.”

Summer Spring Singing Towns Dancing Winter Dancer Autumn Bells Floating Spring Summer

Author:e. e. cummings

“Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.”

Men Way Wells Said Eye Judging Ears Dancing Convinced Best Way Folly Privileged Sagacity

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“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.”

Kind Reason Order Wish Rooms Wall Judgment Balls Dancing All Kinds Satan Visible Dancer Righteousness Disorder Provoking Mischief Wildness Levity

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.”

Dancing Rage

Book:The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces

Source: The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces

“Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.”

Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Death is dancing me ragged.”

Death Dancing Ragged

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.”

Seeing Dancing Dance Carpet Shifting

Author:Thomas Crum

“Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn.”

I Can War Dancing Dance Dancer Take Time Sister

Author:Frank Wead

“15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.”

Ifs Trying Looks Steps Stage Dancing Ill Illness Mental Illness Imitating Mentally Ill

Author:Thom Yorke

“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. For that fortune, some sold their soul to Satan. Was on track for the first two years, then i let the Devil steer. Now i got to mask my tears, but allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Cole: Born sinner, opposite of a winner. But the Devil run the T.V. so the demons in him, I'm in trouble did a deal with the Devil but now I'm pleading with him like give me my soul. I ain't ever letting go but the devil don't play fair.”

“Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.”

Long Soul Left Dark Dancing My Soul Satan Long Ago

Author:Lana Del Rey

“Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.”

Moments Feelings Style Essence Dancing Abstraction Thoughts And Feelings Allusion

Author:Alvin Ailey

“Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we're 22.”

Ifs Dancing Alright Everything Will Be Alright

Author:Taylor Swift

“Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'”

Years Has Beens Two Three House Stars Leader Performances Majority Prison Dancing Former Three Years Toms Delay Dancing With The Stars Money Laundering Majority Leader

Author:Jay Leno

“I was called a dance prodigy since I was young. A prodigy is like a genius. But I'm not a genius. It's just that what I do a little bit better than others, and that happens to be dancing.”

Littles Happens Young Bits Genius Little Bit Dancing Prodigies

Author:Min

“Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.”

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.”

Feet Beats Treats Dancing Dancer Mud Mississippi Mississippi River

Author:James Kavanaugh

“I didn't like dancing in Canada. The managers of the clubs treated me as less than a cow. And Canadians don't tip so you have to ask for more base pay.”

Asks Pay Dancing Clubs Treated Managers Canada Cows

Author:Chasey Lain

“If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.”

Ifs Life Christian Life Is Doubt Information Materials Dancing Christian Life No Doubt Daring Biblical

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.”

People Ifs Men Wells Stills Use Might Voice Singing Ordinary Dancing Driving Truck Dead Man

Author:Elvis Presley

“I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw a DJ on stage and that was crazy at the time. I was one of the really respected and famous DJs in Paris, but they would never show me. I was hidden. A DJ on stage and people dancing and facing the DJ, looking at him? I was like 'wow!'”

People Play Shows House Music Saws Crazy Stage Huge Revolution Dancing London Paris Wow Show Me Djs House Music

Author:David Guetta

“The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.”

Girl Actors Stage Dangerous Danger Masters Dancing Dance Theatre Tea Tango

Author:Lillian Russell

“My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.”

Littles Song Dancing Inspired Faster Hawaiians

Author:Lana Del Rey

“Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window.”

Window Dancing Unexpected Bedroom Incidents Raindrops

Author:Mod Sun

“Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.”

Hard Mathematics Dancing Dull Enthusiastic Geography

Author:John James Audubon

“I really love action. I really love doing my own stunts. I would love to do more of that. I've done a lot of TV, but my heart is really in film. I really look forward to the film possibilities. I would love to dance in a movie again. I love all those creative aspects, like playing an instrument or dancing. I look forward to all that stuff, in future roles.”

Looks Heart Done Action Film Stuff My Own Roles Creative Possibility Tvs My Heart Aspect Instruments Dancing

Author:Ksenia Solo

“Of course, I'm a dancer. Dancing grabbed me from the start and I have was never afraid to do it. With out dance I wouldn't be singing. I want to expose people to the underground dance scene through music.”

People Want Courses Scene Singing Dancing Dancer

Author:Jillian Hervey

“People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.”

People Way Trying Would Be Able My Own Particular Dancing Boxes

Author:Jillian Hervey

“From when I was born, my dad would dance with me in his arms, and I would watch my siblings dancing around in the living room. I just grew up with that. That was just my life.”

Born Rooms Watches Arms Grew Dad Grew Up Dancing My Dad Sibling Living Room My Siblings

Author:Julianne Hough

“I'd feel a little bit dead inside, if I didn't have dancing. It's such a way of expression and exercise and life and love. You laugh, when you're being corny and dorky-dancing. It's everything.”

Ifs Way Feels Littles Bits Laughing Love You Expression Exercise Little Bit And Love Dancing Life And Love Corny Dorky

Author:Julianne Hough

“I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music since I was that age - singing in musicals and taking lessons. Lots of lessons! Singing, dancing, acting, drums set. My mom pretty much had a full-time job carting me all over town six days a week.”

Kids Age Jobs Acting Five Week Mom Involved Lessons Six Singing Towns Dancing My Mom Composing Full Time Jobs Singing Dancing

Author:Jason Graves

“There's something people find hilarious about dogs surfing and dancing and talking in the movies. I think it's nice for people - I think it's wish fulfillment - to see animals talking.”

People Thinking Wish Animal Talking Nice Dog Dancing Fulfillment Surfing

Author:Owen Wilson

“I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.”

Rooms Doors Dancing Barack Very Happy Dressings Dressing Rooms

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid. I didn't have the moxie, what it took to run the streets with the dudes that I grew up wanting to emulate. But I had a huge need to be accepted, so I found that I could be the party king. I did drugs really well, and I partied really well.”

Way Needs Wells Running Kids Found Party Streets Huge Grew Kings Drug Grew Up Dancing Accepted Being Cool Emulate Moxie

Author:Michael K. Williams

“When I was a kid, three years old, I couldn't walk by the piano without reaching up and trying to play a few notes on it. There are kids who are just drawn to listening to music and dancing to it and trying to conduct.”

Trying Years Play Kids Three Walks Listening Dancing Notes Piano Reaching Three Years Listening To Music Three Year Olds Reaching Up

Author:Michael Tilson Thomas

“Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. That's what's great about the choreography that goes on here. It's a delicate ballet with a fist in the face.”

Looks Mean Faces Fighting Goes On Dancing Boxing Ballet Delicate Fists Choreography Great Boxing Boxing Matches

Author:David Lyons

“I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.”

People Thinking Looks Play Singing Direct Dancing Look At Me

Author:Susan Stroman

“I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.”

Thinking Problem Dancing Architecture Truism Funky

Author:Rob Chapman

“I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.”

Thinking Way Writing Art Art Is Dancing Architecture Etc Metaphorical

Author:Rob Chapman

“Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug.”

Giving Social Church Pleasure Drug Band Concerned Roots Function Dancing Halls Concerts Marching Band

Author:Oliver Sacks

“I can't recreate that feeling of being naked, because we're all so used to seeing each other's tits and ass-cracks that all that's going to give you is Cush dancing half-naked in a banana skirt.”

Giving Feelings Dancing

Author:Cush Jumbo

“I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.”

Different Whole Life Is Views Television Singing Essence Performances Dancing Whole Life Different Things Singing And Dancing

Author:Lady Gaga

“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.”

People Real Interesting Training Dancing Real Life Tension Dancer Being Real Schedules

Author:George Nolfi

“The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up - it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together.”

Thinking Kind Together Certain Letting Go Perception Conscious Dancing Unconscious Urges Freeze Coming Together

Author:Michael Light

“Dancing is so physical and so athletic. I think it rings to the boy that is in my soul because you get to run and jump and climb and act as aggressively as you'd like.”

Thinking Soul Running Boys Dancing Rings My Soul Climbs Athletic

Author:Stephen Boss

“I've learned that I can't do it all at once. So, you have to figure out your angle of attack. Coming in on the acting front, acting is a passion of mine. It's a true love. Dancing, I kind of just fell into. Choreographing, the same thing. But making films, producing and directing, that's the heartbeat of my existence.”

Heart Kind I Can Film Passion Acting Existence Fronts Figures Mines Dancing I've Learned Angle Heartbeat

Author:Columbus Short

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Kind Hard Together Three Dancing Worthwhile Precision

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“Dancing makes people feel good whether they're doing it or watching it. It's something I think everybody can relate to whether it's just a simple two-step or a B-boy watching another B-boy go crazy in a circle. It makes you smile and without you even knowing it and it makes you rock to the beat as well.”

People Thinking Feels Wells Two Simple Steps Boys Knowing Crazy Rocks Beats Dancing Circles Feel Good Relate Without You Make You Smile

Author:Stephen Boss

“My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.”

Beautiful Motivation Creative Laughter All Things Dancing Colour Be Creative

Author:RuPaul

“The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.”

Color Laughter Dancing

Author:RuPaul

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