Dance And Dancing

(276 votes)   On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(148 votes)   How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(125 votes)   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; but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt -- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

Jane Austen
1775-1817, British Novelist

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(114 votes)   And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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(99 votes)   Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(97 votes)   A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(92 votes)   Dancing with abandon, turning a tango into a fertility rite.

Marshall Pugh

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(92 votes)   We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

Martha Graham
1894-1991, American Dancer, Teacher, and Choreographer

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(86 votes)   The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Isadora Duncan
1878-1927, American Dancer

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(79 votes)   Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

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(79 votes)   We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(74 votes)   They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.

Andrew Holleran

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(73 votes)   When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?

Julius Kambarge Nyerere
1922-, Tanzanian Statesman, President

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