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.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance, one cannot fly into flying.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

Every savage can dance.

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

I don't wanna dance if I'm not dancing with you.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk at least before they dance.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

In general, my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Everything has rhythm. everything dances.

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.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

And we should consider every day lost, on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false, which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation, and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

No sane man will dance.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

For you and I are past our dancing days.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance, or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your close,t you'd best teach it to dance.

And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

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

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

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

There will be a rain dance, friday night weather permitting

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.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many many months successively without being at any ball of any description and no material injury accrue either to body or mind, but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been though slightly felt -- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

This existence of ours is as transient as Autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by like a torrent down a steep mountain.

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."