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How can we know the dancer from the dance? -- William Butler Yeats
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. -- Doris Humphrey
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. -- Quentin Crisp
To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving. -- Jamie Wyeth
Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle! -- Nina Dobrev
Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema. -- Manohla Dargis
Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!' On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!' -- Clement Clarke Moore
He gave Dancer one last pat. 'You're luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes life a lot less complicated. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole. -- Paula Gunn Allen
I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque. -- Cathy Marie Buchanan
Are we Human?Or are we dancer?My sign is vital, My hands are cold,And I'm on my knees, begging for the answer,To are we Human?Or are we Dancer~? -- The Killers
Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer;' I watched it some 20 times as a kid. -- Jan Koum
Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad. -- Jackson Browne
Dancers are the athletes of God. -- Albert Einstein
Dancers are the messengers of the gods. -- Martha Graham
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground. -- Martha Graham
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. -- George Balanchine
Life is the dancer and you are the dance. -- Eckhart Tolle
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. -- Paul Valery
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. -- Isadora Duncan
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. -- Sylvie Guillem
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. -- Martha Graham
I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. -- Mitch Hedberg
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. -- Jack Handey
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. -- Martha Graham
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. -- Martha Graham
I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer. -- Navi Rawat
A dancer's life is hard - it is so physically demanding, and at any moment, you could have an injury that could end your career. -- Monica Cruz
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. -- Albert Einstein
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer. -- Xenophon
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer. -- Bruno Mars
A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it. -- Isadora Duncan
Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training. -- Benjamin Millepied
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands. -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me. -- Diane Kruger
The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her. -- Amish Tripathi
You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently. -- Florenz Ziegfeld
My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife. -- Sunidhi Chauhan
Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do. -- Anna Neagle
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Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics. -- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did. -- Joan Collins
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. -- Penelope Cruz
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. -- Martha Graham
People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind. -- Judith Jamison
I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was -- Jennifer Lopez
I am the 'Cosmic Dancer' who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on 'Electric Warrior.' I'm not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn't look cool. That's the way I would do it at home. -- Marc Bolan
Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and it's kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they don't necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video. -- Jenna Dewan
I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun. -- Nina Dobrev
What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do. -- Steve Martin
Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name. -- Rob Sheffield
People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting. -- Cassandra Peterson
What I have to tell you is this: I am resolved that dancing is to be my path. I know that to be a dancer is to be considered in our world little more than a prostitute. But you cannot imagine what is happening here in Berlin. It is different back home, but in Europe dance is being reborn as something more than cheap entertainment by loose women. -- Wendy Buonaventura
There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul. -- Isadora Duncan
Dance is the ritual of immortality -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dance was her style, dance was her fashion. -- Amit Kalantri
The human body is the best work of art. -- Jess C. Scott
Why fall when love can dance to a beloved. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dancers are the flag bearers of the artistic renaissance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
You may make love in dancing as well as sitting. -- Aphra Behn
Empowerment of the senses is in the steps of dance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Movements of the body are a reflection of the soul. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Love is the only language of dance; eternal and beyond worlds. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Why fall when love can dance to heart of a beloved. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Every dance has a purpose and every dancer has a destiny. -- Oliver Phipps
If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment. -- Erol Ozan
Art comes to life when emotions dance with thoughts on realities stage. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Sword of Raks is a symbol of a dancer with creative empowerment -- Shah Asad Rizvi
If spirit is the seed, dance became the water of its evolution. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Every style of dance is a tribute to the elements of the spirit. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Help People,Be Good With Them...Even If You Get Nothing From Them -- Mocan Victor
There are those who dance the notes and those who dance the music. -- Eva Ibbotson
Differences of humanity like rivers flow as one in the ocean of dance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Your external appearance can be great, but your stunning beauty beams from within. -- Wayne Chirisa
Dance less in motion and more in spirit.... and awaken the dreamer within. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Destiny is that grand orchestra on whose melodies dance steps of our life. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
The sight of a dancing lady is like a soothing sensation of a lullaby. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Every time feet move in search of dance, lips find smiles million galaxies wide. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dance like a holy breeze invades the spirit and fills it with divine grace. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dance provides the spirit with energy to survive from its confinement in the mortal frame. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
World seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Almighty God created a dancer as a symbol of the reflection of artistry in motion. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Sands of time pause... for a glimpse of moments dyed with the color of dance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Yatho Hasta thatho Drishti, Yatho Drishti thatho ManahYatho Manah thatho Bhaava, Yatho Bhaava thatho Rasa -- Natyashastra
Time is never ticking for its moments dye in a colorful dance and move forward. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dance is the healing treasure within your spirit that only movements of passion can set free. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
On the stage of life, what are words but decorations... unlike dance that showcases the performance? -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Words of mankind limited in meaning to describe the enchantment that illuminates from aura of a dancer. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
So effortlessly dance compliments melodies, when imperfections of two come together through movements... evolving into one light. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Spirit of a dancer ages like whiskey for it experiences in each dancing act lifetimes of freedom. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dance to the tune of hope, as worries of past slip away to the surrender of smiles. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Music does not need the language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Lost every purpose to visit land of dreams, since colors of dance filled the canvas of my reality. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
In this world there are thousands of healers but none possesses the medication of spiritual ecstasy like dance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination. -- Roman Payne
If the power of love is in your heart then dance away to a universe beyond the stars. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids. -- Janet Fitch
Guardians of glory bless the rage of the raqs... in the ambiance that beats with drums of oriental stories. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Give the mind rest, do not stress too much on thoughts, close your eyes and let your spirit dance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Hurry, believers of love, hurry. Share a dance and elevate your bond to a place where only spirits embrace. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
How beautiful is the experience of dance. It can melt the grief of a heart with its steps of solace. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dance is the divine art that empowers a lady to express her most sacred emotions through the majesty of movements. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dance we shall to the song of our hearts as moods sway to dreamy winds under the crescent moon shade. -- Shah Asad Rizvi

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