Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.

— Katarina Johnson-Thompson

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

— Jaclyn Smith

There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.

— Eva Ibbotson

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

— Elizabeth Olsen

This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance.

— Shah Asad Rizvi

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.

— Shah Asad Rizvi