John Adams Quotes

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

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.

Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

Dancing is why I love music as much as I do and vice-versa, and there aren’t many things better than those two combined.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and celebration are never the same. In celebration you are a participant; in entertainment you are only a spectator. In entertainment you watch others playing for you. So while celebration is active, entertainment is passive. In celebration you dance, while in entertainment you watch someone dancing, for which you pay him.

When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century.

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!