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“I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.”

People Years Today Lasts Spiritual Religious Five Dancing Five Years Articles Solace Ballroom Ballroom Dancing Last Five Years

Author:Ben Katchor

“The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.”

Ifs Looks Next Dad Dancing My Dad Only Time Funny Wedding

Author:Cat Deeley

“The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.”

War Together Fall Found Interesting Scene Dancing Falling In Love Appeals Interesting Things Marrying

Author:Maximilian Schell

“As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.”

Years Actors Audience Taken Stage Fronts Scene Comfortable Romantic Dancing

Author:Sanjay Dutt

“I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.”

World Want Able Action Force Generations Dancing Changing The World

Author:Taylor Hanson

“The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.”

Men World Children Real Courses Wonder Imagine Dancing Proof Fairy Unseen Real Things Lawns Children Christmas

Author:Francis Pharcellus Church

“Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.”

Enough Pain Film Easy Imagine Lays Dancing Scripts Physical Pain

Author:Victoria Abril

“I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.”

Ifs School Night Courses Forget Class Morning Dancing Threat Dance Class

Author:Victoria Abril

“As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.”

Would Be Kids Dancing Grandma My Grandma

Author:Victor Cruz

“I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.”

Want Stars Dancing Dancing With The Stars

Author:Victor Cruz

“You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.”

Giving Given Dancing Fulfillment Terrified

Author:Karen Kain

“When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.”

Dancing Mystical Molecules

Author:Jane Wagner

“The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.”

Doe Play Spirit Culture Social Born Grew Civilization Pure Grew Up Sacred Competition Dancing Arise Impulse Ritual Phases

Author:Johan Huizinga

“The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.”

Lasts Perception Dancing Deeds Invisible Golden Illegal Chords Corridors Courthouses

Author:Hakim Bey

“We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.”

Life Meditation Dancing Inward Nevertheless

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.”

World Soul Shadow Dancing Sufism Sunlight Inspirational Sufi Life Love And Happiness

Author:Rumi

“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.”

Thinking Said Next Brain Audience Dancing Slave Sweat Digging

Author:Ann Miller

“The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything.”

Ifs Knows Way Doe Certain Buddhism Tradition Dancing Warrior Artistic Accomplishment Confucianism Way Of The Warrior

Book:Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

“Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.”

Firsts Dancing Complaining Dirt Complaints Stunning Pedestal Tap Dancing

Author:Sharon Stone

“Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.”

Littles Silence Awareness Return Quiet Dancing

Author:H. W. L. Poonja

“But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.”

Whole Reality Universe Dancing Dance Denial

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls... I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.”

Girl House Stage Keys Dancing Pounds Spices Headphones Spice Girls

Author:Melanie Brown

“I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.”

Dancing Specialty Acrobatics

Author:Betsey Johnson

“I mean, when you grow up dancing, you have to become very comfortable in your own skin.”

Mean Grows Growing Up Comfortable Skins Dancing Comfortable In Your Own Skin

Author:Sharni Vinson

“I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.”

Thinking Giving Years Art Action Fighting Crosses Dancing Dancer Martial Arts Fifteen Fifteen Years

Author:Sharni Vinson

“It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center. I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been.”

Has Beens Made Wanted Past Fun Felt Records Middle Rocks Easier Mark Dancing Albums Rock N Roll Revival

Author:John Fogerty

“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.”

Want Looks Stills Ends Black Tree Dancing Ice Silver Midnight Shattered Black Ice

Book:Gwendolyn MacEwen

Source: Gwendolyn MacEwen

“I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.”

Years Next Acting Wonder Millions Struggle Lessons Singing Dancing Actresses Meals Typical Auditions

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.”

Firsts Havens Genius Thirds Dancing

Author:Ethan Embry

“The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.”

Ideas Dancing Scare

Author:Johnny Depp

“Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

Knows Soul Wisdom Body Born Pleasure Tree Despair Labor Dancing Oil Dancer Rooted Leafs Glances Midnight Bruised Blossoming Chestnuts

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar, Dancing on the light from star to star. Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are, I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire. I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream, You could have been anyone to me. Before that moment you touched my lips That perfect feeling when time just slips Away between us on our foggy trip.”

“Just knowing that the world is round Here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right side up or upside down? Is this real or am I dreaming?”

World Real Dream Sides Knowing Dancing Rounds Upside Down World Is Round

Author:Dave Matthews

“We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.”

Inspiring Transformation Dancing Doorways

Author:Marge Piercy

“The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.”

Art Soul Body Mother Break Dancing Dance Distinction Breaking Down

Author:Curt Sachs

“The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.”

Joy Energy Mankind Expression Dancing Dance Excess Motor Joy Of Living Dance Life

Author:Curt Sachs

“The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.”

Knows Littles Shows Animal Movement Dancing Dance Enthusiasm Variety Zest

Author:Curt Sachs

“Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.”

Humans Dancing Dance Creator Mood Human Life Significance Ecstatic Carrier

Author:Curt Sachs

“In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.”

Wells Self Country Loss Europe Dancing Dance Ancient Sections Asia Sects Ancient Times Motifs Armenia

Author:Curt Sachs

“It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.”

Body Form Spirit Consciousness Divine Dancing Dance Devotion Limitation Remove

Author:Curt Sachs

“Every dance is and gives ecstasy.”

Giving Dancing Dance Ecstasy

Author:Curt Sachs

“The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.”

Children Soul Forget Existence Stage Arms Adults Weight Dancing Dance Rounds Contact Companion Slips Twilight Rigidity Ballroom

Author:Curt Sachs

“The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."”

States Can Do Wonder Dancing Dance Tension Dancer Staying Superhuman Hypnosis Staying Power Superhuman Powers

Author:Curt Sachs

“A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.”

Children Littles Persons Dancing Dance Shoulders Dancer Continents

Author:Curt Sachs

“If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.”

Ifs Important Play Happens Asks Dancing Dance Customs Puberty Initiation Festivities Bushmen

Author:Curt Sachs

“In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.”

Character Culture Force Social Levels Movement Higher Stronger Dancing Dance Contact Ties Dancer Stride Higher Level

Author:Curt Sachs

“The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.”

People Stills Form Dancing Dance Circles Continents Chimpanzees

Author:Curt Sachs

“Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.”

World Culture Known Fronts Dancing Dance Circles Huts

Author:Curt Sachs

“Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.”

Consciousness Four Wall Dancing Dance Four Walls

Author:Curt Sachs

“The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.”

Men May Play Form Culture Levels He Man Opposites Dancing Dance Forms Of Love

Author:Curt Sachs