Thomas Gray Quotes

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

I wanted to be a tap dancer when I was very young.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

I started dancing at the age of three in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio, and it really was my sister's dream to pursue dance professionally.

I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

Peter Parker can't dance. He can flip and climb up walls and do backflips, but he definitely can't dance.

It's true that I went to dance classes as a young boy, and it did improve my feet, but I don't believe that it was solely dancing that helped my footwork.

Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I hear music and my feet just start moving.

If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!

Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.

Pamela Anderson is a great dancer considering she can't see her feet.

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

It's better to dance than to march through life.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.