Quotes about dancing
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“If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.”

Iris Johansen (1938) Novelist

Source: Countdown

“And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.”

David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Disease, Dance, Dead

“You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly.
Mom!
What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Moms, Dance, Flying

“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

Sense, Dance, Funny

“Dancing was the only activity he enjoyed with a woman, and he regretted that court dancing was no longer in vogue. If you want to bed a woman, do it in the bedroom. If you want to seduce her, do it in the dance.”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: Daughter of the Blood

Dance

“You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don't dance
So you might as well
dance.”

Gertrude Stein book Three Lives

Source: Three Lives

Dance

“All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.”

Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Life, Imagination, Dance, Personality

“I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?”

Jude Watson book What I Saw and How I Lied

Source: What I Saw and How I Lied

Beauty, Feeling, Girl, Sleep

“she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.”

Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage

Source: The Pilgrimage

Dreams, Way, Dance

“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Dance

“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos

Variant: Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
Source: Lord of Chaos

Dance, Dead

“Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.”

Roberto Bolaño book 2666

Source: 2666

Dance, Night

“Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Dance

“On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Cats, Horse, Dance

“Then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Pleasure, Heart, Dance

“Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

Thinking, Dance

“It’s not about finding shelter in the storm but about dancing in the rain. (Zarek - Dark hunter)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Source: Acheron

Dance

“Don't you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly there was music everywhere & it went on for a very long time & when I finally found words all I could say was thank you.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Music, Time, Dance

“I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.”

Lisa Unger book Sliver of Truth

Source: Sliver of Truth

Love, Sadness, Change, Dance

“The coach could do a goat-hoof tap dance around Nico’s head and the son of Hades wouldn’t even budge.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Dance

“Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Tears of the Moon

Love, Music, Dance

“In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Love, Women, Men, World

“They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

Love, Dance

“No. I’m not hot, and I don’t want to do the Squeaky Dance.” Simon sighed. This day was full of disappointments.”

Anne Bishop book Marked in Flesh

Source: Marked in Flesh

Disappointment, Dance

“Dancing is music made visible.”

George Balanchine (1904–1983) Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983)

Music, Dance

“Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Light, Dance

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing… it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

Fools, Wine, Singing, Dance

“Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Source: The Great Hunt

Men, Dance

“The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life takes place.”

Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist

Life, Dance

“Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and—"
He stood up. "Let's dance.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Men, Sex, Way, Guy

“The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Dreams

Life, Pleasure, Star, Time

“We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

People, Music, Dance

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Variant: If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Source: Immaturity

Family, Dance, Family

“I'm going to a dance."
With Becky?"
No, with Alexander."
Who's Alexander?"
The love of my life!”

Ellen Schreiber book Vampire Kisses

Source: Vampire Kisses

Love, Life, Dance

“The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing and of life is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Life, Music, Dance

“There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.”

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Source: The Great Hunt

Light, Dance

“Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Source: The World of Winnie-the-Pooh

Dance, Perfection

“Surprise me, Atlantean. Attack. This isn’t a dance party. (Takeshi)
You know, this isn’t building my confidence. In fact, I think I’m just going to lie here for a bit and take in some sun. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Lie, Confidence, Thinking, Sun

“[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy… Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

Happiness, Books, Music, Thinking

“What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.”

Rob Thurman (1950) American writer

Source: Nightlife

Dance

“Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Dance

“In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred, It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1984) Novelist

Source: The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows

Love, Beauty, Freedom, Past

“I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Thinking, Dance

“The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing.”

Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

People, Dance, Training

“I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Dance

“And see the peaceful trees extend
their myriad leaves in leisured dance—
they bear the weight of sky and cloud
upon the fountain of their veins.”

Kathleen Raine (1908–2003) poet, critic, translator

Peace, Tree, Dance

“Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

Marriage, Sense, Dance, Wedding

“Here I am
and there is my body
dancing on glass
In accident time where there are no accidents
You have no choice
the choice comes after”

Sarah Kane (1971–1999) playwright from England

Time, Dance

“One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1991)

Women, Dance, Housing

“He fought as he wished he had all those years ago, for the chance he had missed. In that moment between storms--when the rain stilled and the winds drew in their breaths to blow--he danced with the slayer of kings, and somehow held his own.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Chance, Dance

“Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!'
'I don't know, a bowl?'
'Non… I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

Dance

“She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: Heir to the Shadows

Life, Pain, Dance

“She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance. Poppy-and-James.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

Dance

“Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Standing In The Doorway

Dance, Night

“I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.”

Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor

Soul, Learning, Dance

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”

Susan Polis Schutz (1944) American poet

Flowers, Sun, Dance

“I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.”

Margaret Atwood book Surfacing

Lady Oracle (1976)
Source: Surfacing

Dance

“Dancing Is a Perpendicular Expression of a Horizontal Desire.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

attributed by George Melly in 1962 Source: Quote Investigator - Dancing Is a Perpendicular Expression of a Horizontal Desire http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/09/11/dancing/

Dance, Funny

“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Context: I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

Dance