/* 2Nilssons.com Social Dance Quote-of-the-Day (c) 2006 Scott and Kristy Nilsson */ /* If you harvest our Dance Quotes for your own page, please credit 2nilssons.com */ /* Our complete collection is online at http://2nilssons.com/dancequotes.htm */ /* Email addresses snk - at - 2nilssons.com or snknilsson - at - gmailcom */ /* This Javascript was modified from code courtesy of Ralph Capper. */ /* If you borrow this code, please credit and thank him. Thank you, Ralph! */ /* His site is at ralpharama.com, email: ralph - at - ralpharama.co.uk */ /* All Quotes are simply held in an array as follows */ quotes=new Array( "The waltz is a dance of quite too loose a character, and unmarried ladies should refrain from it... very young married ladies may be allowed to waltz if it is very seldom... ~ The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness, 1833", "Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know... I'll bluff the rest: slap your partner in the face, write bad checks all over the place, flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, get a divorce and lose your house – now dosey-do! ~ Scott Adams, writing as Dogbert", "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. ~ Jane Austen, 'Emma'", "To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. ~ 'Jane Austen'", "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. ~ Sir Arnold Bax", "Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame. ~ Eleanor Bergstein, screenwriter - 'Dirty Dancing'", "Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious. ~ Ambrose Bierce", "About a year ago I took up line dancing. I got so into it I had to join a self-help group to stop. It's a two-step program... ~ Frederick J. Boenig", "To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. ~ David Byrne", "These days, many forms of dance and music come close to being trance-inducing. One of the subdivisions of house music has even been given the name 'trance.' In addition, it is not simply the style of dancing that approaches or revives the nature of tribal dancing, but also another dimension. In those places and at those moments where all the elements are just right – the crowd, the music, the ambiance, the moon – something happens that goes beyond the merely individual experience. Suddenly, in the way of synergy, the participating individuals actually disappear and a concerted, coherent, and merged group is born, for however short a time. In those very moments, the tribal spirit is truly manifest and, just as in tribal societies, the dance becomes a release and a catharsis for the entire community. ~ Rufus C. Camphausen", "Never criticize your dance partner. ~ Brave Combo", "The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when the man feels that he is a male and the woman feels that she is female, without machismo. She likes to be led; he likes to lead. Disagreements may occur later or they may not. When that moment comes, it is important to have positive and productive dialogue, fifty-fifty. The music arouses and torments, the dance is the coupling of two people defenseless against the world and powerless to change things. ~ Juan Carlos Copes", "When a man and woman understand each other dancing, simply carrying the beat, dancing for three minutes to a music called tango, it's the closest thing to (sex) – but sensual rather than erotic. ~ Juan Carlos Copes", "The dance can be re-born with each song and in a different way by each couple. ~ Mike Corbett", "Want to spend lots of time dancing with ladies? Impress them with how good they are! ~ Gerald Cosby", "Relationships are like a dance. People spend so much time trying to change their partner's steps, and blaming them for treading on their toes. When they instead focus on changing their own steps, the dance changes anyway. ~ Tania Dally, Relationship Coach", "O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! See the couples advance – O, Love's but a dance! A whisper, a glance, 'Shall we twirl down the middle?' O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! ~ Henry Austin Dobson", "Relationships are like a dance with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. ~ Colette Dowling, New York psychotherapist", "In couple dances, gentlemen, hold onto her like you like her. ~ Richard Duree", "The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship. ~ Havelock Ellis", "How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget... ~ Don Felder, The Eagles – 'Hotel California'", "Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well. ~ Lord Chesterfield, in his letters to his son", "The time honored most accepted method of inviting and accepting a request for a dance, is the eye contact and a head nod. It speaks highly of politeness, courtesy and above all about avoiding uncomfortable and at times embarrassing experiences. It also affords every dancer the privacy of choosing how to spend an evening. It is unsettling being stalked by overzealous individuals or being put into the difficult situation of accepting reluctantly or declining uncomfortably. In spite of its popularity nobody appreciates being 'used.' ~ extracted from 'El Firulete'", "If life is a dance, then friends are the music. ~ Eva Gregory", "Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. ~ Matt Groening", "A man who knows how to dance can make any woman feel good. ~ Barbara Haller, ballroom champion", "To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road. ~ Thomas Hardy", "In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other. ~ Milan Kundera", "In the pivotal moves of the dance, those in which the dance partners exchange leadership, the power of the dance can be seen to alternate as quickly as that of sweat-slick wrestlers or fate-heavy duelists. Dominance is always fragile and unsure; subjugation is merely quiescence in which to plot the regaining of the upper hand. Thus, energies of ego and control struggle in a psychomania in three dimensions on the dance floor. ~ Richard Martin", "Do you want – do you want – do you want to dance with me baby? ~ Joni Mitchell, 'All I Want'", "Chubby Checker lost pounds by demonstrating how to move as if you were 'drying your back with a towel' - the substitution of the word 'back' for 'bottom' indicates the oddly wholesome image of the Twist. ~ Jan Murray", "Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other – that's a very pleasant social form. ~ Steve Paxton", "Dancing is an amazing activity. You can go up to a gorgeous woman that you've never met before, spend three minutes touching her virtually anywhere on her body, and she thanks you for it afterwards! ~ Mario Robau, Jr", "Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it. ~ Maurice de Saxe", "Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ~ George Bernard Shaw", "There was an old clerk of Columbus - who wearied of totaling numbus, wo he moved to East Lansing... and spent his time dancing - maxixes, merengues, and rhumbus. ~ Colonel G. L. Sicherman", "Relationships are like a dance. After a while we are so used to doing certain steps that we lose our balance and awareness of our bodies in relationship to others. ~ Sheryl Stephen", "These sort of boobies think that people come to balls to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is either to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after somebody else's wife. ~ Robert Smith Surtees", "How do you know a partner is right for you? That has everything to do with knowing each other and practicing together until you work as one, until you begin to synchronise your movements and your thoughts and your rhythmical feel for the music with your partner. ~ Patsy Swayze", "...if you desire to marry you must realize that a mistress is won by the good temper and grace displayed while dancing... for dancing is practiced to reveal whether lovers are in good health and sound of limb, after which they are permitted to kiss their mistresses in order that they may touch and savor one another thus to ascertain if they are shapley or emit an unpleasant odor as of bad meat. Therefore, from this standpoint, quite apart from the many other advantages to be derived from dancing, it becomes an essential to a well-ordered society. ~ Jehan Tabourot, 'Orchesography'", "You'll find your feet at the end of your legs... you may care to move them. ~ Rose Tyler character in BBC series, 'Doctor Who'", "Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world. ~ Vauvenargues", "Feel the blood rise to your face with every beat; while an arm winds like a snake around a waist that is about to break. This is how to dance the tango! ~ Elizardo Martinez Vilas", "Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them. ~ George Washington", "The curve is more powerful than the sword. ~ Mae West", "Dancing is all about wordless communication – a light pull on a shoulder, a step forward and a shift of weight, a shared understanding of the music and how it moves bodies. ~ Jasper Winn", "The opportunities for body-contact highlight how wonderfully non-politically correct dance is. It's about display and seduction... And once you get into real dancing – partner dancing – you've got the added inequality of somebody having to follow. ~ Jasper Winn", "The girl who can't dance says the band can't play. ~ Yiddish Proverb", "Contra dancing is the most fun you can have with your clothes on! ~ unattributed", "Dancing check to check is really a form of floor play... ~ unattributed", "Drinking and dancing don't mix. ~ unattributed", "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. ~ unattributed", "Relationships are like a dance It's as much about your patience, kindness, confidence, and sense of rhythm as it is your choice of partner. ~ unattributed", "Relationships are like a dance, one couple or group may be doing a waltz and another is doing the tango. Both are beautiful in their own right. ~ unattributed", "The follow you just received was a direct result of the lead you just gave. ~ unattributed", "The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move interdependently, as a unit. ~ unattributed", "When the going gets tough, the tough go dancing! ~ unattributed." ); /* Variables : Length of array and a random number up to it */ qlength=quotes.length-1 rndquote=Math.round(Math.random()*qlength); /* Display the random quote */ function writeQuote() { document.write(quotes[rndquote]); document.write(" "); document.write(" "); }