Friday, August 22, 2008

More Dance Quotes!



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Dance like no one is watching.
Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you've never been hurt and
live like it's heaven on earth.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)
American writer


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Dancers are the athletes of God.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
John Dryden (1632-1700), poet



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There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Playwright
Much Ado About Nothing



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To sing well and to dance is to be well educated.
Plato (c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC)
influential teacher, writer



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Dancing is silent poetry.
Simonides of Ceos (c.556-468 BC)
Greek poet



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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue,
must be its own reward. Those who
are standing by are usually thinking
of something very different.
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
English novelist



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How can we know the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Irish poet/dramatist



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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
English poet
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage



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Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
John Milton (1608-1674), English Author
L'Allegro (l. 33)



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Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances
Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;
Old fold and young together, and children mingled among them.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
American Poet
Evangeline (pt. I, IV)



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To those of us with real understanding,
dancing is only the pure form of art.
Charles Schultz, (1922-2000)
Peanuts, Snoopy speaking



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