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A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.
- Francis Bacon
(A)ll dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.
- Camara Laye
A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.
- Toni Bentley
A toe shoe is an eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.
- Toni Bentley
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
For you and I are past our dancing days.
- Shakespeare
'Twas surely the devil that taught women to dance.
- Thomas Fuller
Ballet is the fairies' baseball.
- Oscar Levant
Dancing cheek to cheek.
- Irving Berlin
Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.
- George Bernard Shaw
Everyone is not happy who dances.
- Unknown - A French Proverb
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
- John Ray
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
- Agnes de Mille
About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.
- Coleridge
All Indians must dance, everywhere keep on dancing.
- Wovoka, The Paiute Messiah
Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?
- Jean-Christophe Mailo
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.
- Paul Robeson
And beautiful maidens moved down in the dance, with the magic of motion and sunshine of glance.
- Whittier
And then he danced,--all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;--he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.
- Byron
Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy; it becomes possible.
- Agnes De Mille
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