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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
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.
- Shana Alexander
But when you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
- Shakespeare
Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round
- Milton
Come, and trip it as ye go, on the light fantastic toe.
- Milton
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
- Lord Chesterfield
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
- Martha Graham
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
- Ted Shawn
Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love.
- John Francis Waller
Dance to express, not to impress.
- Anonymous
Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.
- Noah Webster
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