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I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy. -- Elizabeth Meriwether
Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the transformation of fear, convince people that evil is gone or possible to dissipate, and reaffirm communal solidarity and a sense of well-being. -- Judith Lynne Hanna
I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old. -- Len Goodman
Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through. -- Cecil Taylor
In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television. -- Erma Bombeck
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight. -- Mercedes McCambridge
I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had. -- Billy Bob Thornton
I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular. -- Maya Angelou
I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor. -- Madonna Ciccone
When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman. -- Gene Kelly
I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad. -- Patricia McBride
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. -- Aleister Crowley
When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life. -- Kathy Najimy
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. -- Edward Lear
Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He's built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it. -- Don Yaeger
Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist. -- Caroline Knapp
If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor. -- Salma Hayek
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them. -- Amanda Schull
Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as 'the dancing mushroom.' According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate. -- Paul Stamets
We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, open city where anything could happen and anyone could be star. Rents were cheap, creativity was encouraged, and bottle service was still 20 years away. That was the era the Club Kids came into. -- James St. James
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park. -- Madonna Ciccone
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle. -- Zadie Smith
I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions - I danced for so many years. -- Penelope Cruz
I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college. -- Beverly Cleary
Words his soul danced to. -- David Malouf
I could have danced all night! -- Alan Jay Lerner
Who hasn't danced in their underwear? -- Tom Cruise
One you have danced, you always dance. -- Judith Jamison
My mother danced; she loved the ballet. -- Stefanie Powers
I danced through chemo and radiation cycles. -- Ananda Shankar Jayant
I explained it when I danced it. -- Margot Fonteyn
I smiled, danced and cried my way out. -- Adrien Broner
They danced by the light of the moon. -- Edward Lear
I danced with passion to spite the music. -- Gelsey Kirkland
Moods should be heard but never danced to. -- Hugh Prather
I danced from the moment I could stand. -- Anna Pavlova
Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound. -- Holly Black
As long as my ballets are danced, I will live -- Rudolf Nureyev
When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect. -- Stanley Donen
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You're still the same Ramsey I danced with, he said softly. -- Markelle Grabo
Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought. -- Michael Tippett
Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight? -- Jack Nicholson
I danced out my pain...It felt like praying, like flying. -- Christie Watson
You're still the same Ramsey I danced with," he said softly. -- Markelle Grabo
I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping. -- Agnes de Mille
There was a star danced, and under that was I born. -- William Shakespeare
She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart. -- Hans Christian Andersen
About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I danced with my shadows until they became part of my light. -- Jodi Livon
When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art. -- Taheyya Kariokka
I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand -- Tom Waits
Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire. -- Katherine Paterson
His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide. -- James Joyce
they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song. -- Amy Bloom
White IrisThe iris danced acrossthe ancient Grecian skiesgliding with her embossedsatiny milken sides ... -- Muse
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away. -- William Allingham
Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance! -- Gladys Knight
IÂ´ve square danced twice in towns you havenÂ´t even heard of! -- Vince Vaughn
I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion. -- Heidi Klum
Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death. -- Gregory Thaumaturgus
Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays. -- Neil Gaiman
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly. -- Craig Brewer
I slipped myself some pink Xannies/And danced around the house in all-over print panties. -- Tyler, The Creator
I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together. -- Anita Diament
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. -- Ray Bradbury
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards. -- Sherman Alexie
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I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright. -- George M. Cohan
There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves. -- Dick Van Dyke
Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. -- John Milton
A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders. -- Curt Sachs
Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way -- Judith Jamison
I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god. -- China Mieville
I have danced to deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine -- Nikki Rowe
I have danced too deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine. -- Nikki Rowe
If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one. -- Bob Dylan
The ultimate aim of dancing is to be able to move without thinking, to be danced. -- John Blacking
The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood. -- Michael Jackson
And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. -- John Wyndham
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls. -- Leslie Caron
I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala! -- Maya Angelou
I was exhausted from fake partying. I was like, "I just danced for nine hours. Goodnight, ladies!" -- Mila Kunis
Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats. -- J. K. Rowling
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. -- Edward Lear
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. -- Clement Clarke Moore
There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him. -- Chinua Achebe
It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced. -- Bruno Tonioli
I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced. -- Cesar Romero
Last Friday night; Yeah we danced on tabletops. And we took too many shots. Think we kissed, but I forgot? -- Katy Perry
We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her. -- Rudolf Nureyev
You wouldn't know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read 'I'm a clue -- Eoin Colfer
I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray. -- Dominic Riccitello
I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show. -- Dick Van Dyke
I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey. -- Lisa Ann Walter
Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.... -- Mary Mapes Dodge
I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors. -- Kimberly Novosel
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer. -- Bebe Neuwirth
As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen. -- Hiro Mashima Fairy Tail
They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on -- Angela Carter
He danced across my heart like a pirate,Constantly discovering my secrets,Turning over every hidden treasure,Drowning me in his fantasy. -- Tanzy Sayadi
When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. -- Madonna Ciccone
...her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth... -- Megan Whalen Turner
I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way. -- Jane Seymour
That party last night was awfully crazy I wish we taped it I danced my ass off and had this one girl completely... -- Asher Roth
Sebastian sighed an exaggerated sigh and swung the door shut. Clary stared at Jace. "What the f-" "Language, Fray." Jace's eyes danced. "Relax. -- Cassandra Clare
It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time. -- Christopher Paolini
I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon. -- Cecelia Ahern
This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness -- Angela Carter
Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine. -- Mary Howitt
When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. It was good exercise. -- Tom Holland
She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school. -- Jerry Spinelli

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