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I used to drink, I did, I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing to their lights thinking I'd made it to another club.
Bill HicksRead
How many million Aprils came before I ever knew how white a cherry bough could be, a bed of squills, how blue And many a dancing April when life is done with me, will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree Oh burn me with your beauty then, oh hurt me tree and flower, lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour.
Sara TeasdaleRead
Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.
Albert Szent-GyorgyiRead
Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.
RajneeshRead
A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.
Patrick SwayzeRead
Dancing up the full moon_x000D_ _x000D_ Round some fair new altar_x000D_ _x000D_ Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SapphoRead
Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.
Bob FosseRead
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
Isadora DuncanRead
Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.
Isadora DuncanRead
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
DiogenesRead
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.
George BalanchineRead
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
William ShakespeareRead
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
Marcel ProustRead
You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.
Shirley MaclaineRead
As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.
Mary OliverRead
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Paul VolckerRead
The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.
Heath LedgerRead
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
Martha GrahamRead
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha GrahamRead
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.
RumiRead
So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?
Hermann HesseRead

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