“If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!”
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
Source: "Reid Says He's A Fighter Who'd Rather Dance", All Things Considered, NPR (18 May 2010) https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126905578
“If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!”
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
Variant: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948) Soviet-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Letonia, Soviet Union
“I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) American dancer and choreographer
New York Times interview (1985)
Context: I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done it, and what it means to me. But I don't say, "Be fearful here," "Be angry here," because I think that is intrusion.
“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Variant: I would only believe in a god who could dance.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest I didn't stop
Did we fight or did we talk.”
Leslie Feist (1976) Canadian musician
"I Feel It All"
The Reminder (2007)
Tom Cruise (1962) American actor and film producer
Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology (January 16, 2008)
Context: I have to tell you something. It really is, you know, it's rough and tumble. It's wild and woolly. It's a blast... it's a blast. It really is fun, because dammit, there's nothing better than to going out there and fighting the fight...