Dancing Quotes

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars.

Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary".

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive Jones

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

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

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Sir Arnold Bax

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Rod Serling

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.

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Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

Robert Frost

Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a hitting sport.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Isadora Duncan

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive James

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

Eugene Peterson

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Home

Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Ernest Hemingway

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

Clive James

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening