Ballroom Dancing Quotes

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.

For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.

It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you have a hot dog eating contest, call me.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

If you can walk, you can run.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Work like you don't need the money.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

Dance... enjoy each step along the way.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

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.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.