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Ballroom Dance Resource - Dance Quotes|Dance Poems (Next Page) Here are more dance quotes from famous people as well as another dance-related poem for your reading enjoyment!"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world." ~ Voltaire "Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!" ~ Friedrich Nietzsche "Dance is the hidden language of the soul." ~ Martha Graham "Dancers are the athletes of God." ~ Albert Einstein "The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style." ~ Fred Astaire "Women have to do everything that a man does, but backwards and in high heels!" ~ Ginger Rogers "Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance" ~ Unknown "Dancing is like a shower: one wrong turn and your in hot water!" ~ Mad Magazine "Life is too short not to dance" ~ unknown A thought: When you think about it, ballroom dancing is quite an amazing feat. It enables two perfect strangers to move around a crowded dance floor, in very close proximity, in perfect time with the music, and to execute intricate patterns, without bumping into other dancers or into each other. All this while at any particular time the follower has no idea what the leader is going to do next, and the leader may have no idea what the follower is capable of. Dance students are often frustrated and find learning difficult. It is, and it should be. Only a very small percentage of the population is capable of doing what they are trying to accomplish. Thanks to Rene Zgraggen www.DancingWith.ReneZ.com "I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancer "Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they're great because of their passion." ~ Martha Graham Life isn't a dress rehearsal - live everyday like you're on stage ~ Author unknown When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal! ~ Ruth St Denis "There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent." ~ Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) "There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age." ~ Sophia Loren, actress "The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space." ~ Curt Sachs The dance floor is the only place on this planet where the lady is basically telling you "Make me do what you want me to do". I know you don't get that at home ~ Author unknown It is more important to have a good time than to be on the correct foot, unless the foot you are on belongs to someone else ~ Author unknown "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." ~ Fred Astaire On with the dance, let any joy be unconfined, is my motto ~ Mark Twain Anonymous "Invitation to the dance" is what I heard him say He handed me the letter and said "It's time to play" I read the invitation and something tugged my heart A memory of the dance floor and I a work of art But I can't dance now, it's been too long My feet won't keep rhythm with the song I've gotten old, my pace is slow I'm not the gal of long ago Too many birthdays have come and gone Arthritis has settled into these bones Too many yesterdays, not enough tomorrows But wait, I've already seen too many sorrows 'A dance' I thought and a smile spread wide My feet began to tingle inside They were so excited they couldn't keep still I knew I must try though I was over the hill I realized he was standing there looking at me With a spark in his eyes he was pleased, I could see He said, "I'm waiting for your answer, what do you say?" I said "I'll RSVP this invite, you just made my day!" "Dance!...the vertical expression of a horizontal desire." ~ George Bernard Shaw "Dance is the only art form where the artist is also the medium of expression" ~ unknown "Carpe Dancem" (Seize The Dance!) ~ unknown "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak." ~ Hopi Indian Saying "Dancing is an AMAZING activity. You can go up to a gorgeous woman that you've never met before, spend three minutes touching her virtually anywhere on her body, and she THANKS you for it afterwards!" ~ Mario Robau, Jr. at a workshop in Bethesda, MD Spring, 1991 "First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty - if you're very lucky and have said your prayers." ~ George Balanchine "It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer." ~ Shanna LaFleur If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? ~ author unknown "Don't think you're sweating, think you're 'glistening'...and that's sexy." ~ Aleks Gisher ...Go to Dance Quotes|Poems Page Three |
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