#dancing

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. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#arts #beautiful #because #dancing #itself

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet. ↗

— Steve Rasnic Tem

#carpentry #childhood #dancing #dreams #fantasy

I never really did any disco dancing. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#dancing #did #disco #i #never

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. ↗

— Martha Graham

#athlete #becomes #dance #dancing #god

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. ↗

— Matt Groening

#elf #gun #jig #little #love

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet! ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#being #dancing #feet #first #got

Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards. ↗

— Jason Sudeikis

#because #both #dance #dancing #growing

A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously. ↗

— Julianne Hough

#asked #because #dancing #first #i

Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways. ↗

— Julianne Hough

#dancing #different #different ways #me #satisfy

My first dance ever on 'Dancing With the Stars' was to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy.' ↗

— Julianne Hough

#dance #dancing #ever #first #hear