Subject: Entertainment » Dance

The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

He was a man who never let his left hip know what his right hip was doing.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

I don’t dance, but I’d love to hold you while you do.

My father originated the limbo dance… trying to get into a pay toilet.

(1921 – 1995) American comedian & actor

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

Can’t act… slightly bald… also dances.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

(1890 – 1937) author

Baptists never make love standing up; they're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing!

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

Dance: The action of moving rhythmically to music with a partner, a skill which a woman possesses naturally, but which a man acquires only for the short time in his young adulthood when he wishes to meet and impress young women, and abandons thereafter due to mysterious knee injuries.

The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.

(1909 – 1986) Australian dancer, actor, theater director & choreographer

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.

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle… it wasn’t mine.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

Dance like it hurts… love like you need money… work when people are watching.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

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

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

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

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

If you must keep groaning, please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport; dancing is a contact sport.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach

Dancing with her was like moving a piano.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host