1,434 Quotes About Dance

  • Author Fiona McIntosh
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    The waltz was the only way a young couple could touch one another, and even through gloves I could feel the heat of your grandfather's touch,'she'd tell Luc, with a wicked glimmer in her eye.

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  • Author Catherynne M. Valente
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    We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But we are not girls, and so can be almost certain that we know nothing about the matter.

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  • Author Maha
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    Dance is not dance, if you don't do it from your heart.

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  • Author Meg Howrey
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    I made the sympathetic face, and the interested face, and even the impressed face. I did not say, 'In the name of all that is holy, cease this incessant drivel, you pretentious ass.

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  • Author Rabindranath Tagore
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    মম চিত্তে নিতি নৃত্যে কে যে নাচেতাতা থৈথৈ, তাতা থৈথৈ, তাতা থৈথৈ।তারি সঙ্গে কী মৃদঙ্গে সদা বাজেতাতা থৈথৈ তাতা থৈথৈ তাতা থৈথৈ॥হাসিকান্না হীরাপান্না দোলে ভালে,কাঁপে ছন্দে ভালোমন্দ তালে তালে,নাচে জন্ম নাচে মৃত্যু পাছে পাছে,তাতা থৈথৈ, তাতা থৈথৈ, তাতা থৈথৈ।কী আনন্দ, কী আনন্দ, কী আনন্দদিবারাত্রি নাচে মুক্তি নাচে বন্ধ--সে তরঙ্গে ছুটি রঙ্গে পাছে পাছেতাতা থৈথৈ, তাতা থৈথৈ, তাতা থৈথৈ॥

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  • Author Rachel Cohn David Levithan
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    But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave them to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest--the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.

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