80 Ballroom Quotes

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Famous Ballroom Quotes

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. — Heyneke Meyer

Ballet.something pure in this crazy world — Misty Copeland

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio. — Sayings

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness. — Maurice Bejart

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul. — Alexander Pushkin

Dance is music made visible — George Balanchine

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur. — Axwell

The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours. — Mary Wigman

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. - Mata Hari

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. — Mata Hari

Dance when you're perfectly free. — Rumi

Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination. — Doris Humphrey

Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor. — Steve Paxton

Dance, dance, dance till you drop. — W. H. Auden

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. - Isadora Duncan

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. — Isadora Duncan

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. - Martha Graham

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. — Martha Graham

Short Ballroom Quotes

  • There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. — Vicki Baum
  • Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. — Louis Horst
  • Either dance well or quit the ballroom — Greek Proverbs
  • I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it. — Daniel Johns
  • Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop. — W. H. Auden
  • The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince. — Vince Lombardi
  • When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that. — William Shakespeare
  • Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. — Samuel Beckett
  • Dance... enjoy each step along the way. — Wayne Dyer
  • Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation. — Martha Graham

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Ballroom Dancing Quotes

For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner. — Fred Astaire

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

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. — Moliere

Work like you don't need the money. — Joseph Joubert

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. — Martha Graham

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. — Mary Schmich

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. — Lord Byron

Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark. May I have the pleasure? — Stephen King

Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness. — Frederick Lenz

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More Ballroom Quotes

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country. — Nick Clooney

In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the fact that you are not an executive is merely because of the social standing of life... Black people have a hard time getting anywhere. And those that do, are usually straight. In a ballroom, you can be anything you want. — Dorian Corey

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company. — Julia Ward Howe

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries. — Emmitt Smith

Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains. — Michael Chabon

If you can walk, you can run. — Publilius Syrus

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover. — Bruno Tonioli

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony. — Anton du Beke

It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place. — Enya

I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth. — Joan Rivers

The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage. — Curt Sachs

Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick. — Neal Shusterman

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin. — Marilyn vos Savant

I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom... without question. — Ridley Scott

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic. — Baz Luhrmann

It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us. — Anton du Beke

You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could climb that hair like a gym rope. It's fairy-tale hair, Rapunzel hair. We saw her practicing for the pageant in the hotel ballroom with two wild pigs, her hair braided into two lassoes. — Kelly Link

Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life. — Joey McIntyre

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else. — Jane Austen

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. — Barbara De Angelis

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. — Barbara De Angelis

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands. — Jay McShann

I didn't go to college. I got tired of it. I didn't want to take ballroom dance taught by a former drill sergeant in the WACs. I didn't like flunking speech, me, flunking speech. But I realized sometime later, okay, I don't have a piece of paper that says I've been educated, so I'm gonna have to be able to demonstrate that I'm educated. So I began self-teaching. It was all related to desire. — Rush Limbaugh

We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to flee the Audubon after shooting Malcolm X, we know that Hayer confessed years later to his Imam in prison that there had been a walk-through a week prior to February 21st [1965] at the Audubon Ballroom. — Manning Marable

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