"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

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

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door."
— Jerry Seinfeld

"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane."
— H.P. Lovecraft

"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."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul"
— Martha Graham

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. "
— Martha Graham

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."
— Oprah Winfrey

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others"
— Martha Graham

""I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.""
— Martha Graham

"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused."
— Martha Graham

"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert."
— Pat Conroy

"It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."
— Isadora Duncan

"Dance isn't a form it's a way of life"
— Garth Fagan

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance"
— Dave Barry

"Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn't seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance."
— Whitney Scott

"She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar."
— Janet Fitch (White Oleander)

"Your feet will bring you to where your heart is."
— - Old Scots Saying

""I don't have an attitude, I'm just REALLY good!""
— ~Dance Caravan

"They dined on mince, and slices of quince
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon."
— Edward Lear (The Owl and the Pussycat)

"Come fairies take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame."
— William Butler Yeats

"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music"
— William Edgar Stafford

""Ladies should also remember that gentlemen look more to the effect of a dress in setting off the figure and countenance of a lady than to its cost. Very few gentlemen have any idea the value of ladies' dresses. This is a subject for female criticism. Beauty of person and elegance of manners in women will always command more admiration from the opposite sex than beauty, elegance or costliness of clothing."
The Scholars' Companion and Ball Room Vade Mecum
Thomas Hillgrove, 1857"
— Thomas Hillgrove

"Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons)

" U WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT'S A DANCE THANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
— ~ megan~

"Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire"
— Robert Lee Frost

"dont even try to understand... its a dance thing"
— Gabriella Marie Limón

"Danger! Dancer's Room!"
— Gabriella Marie Limón

"There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage."
— Barbara Lazear Ascher

"Dicipline is Freedom."
— Garth Fagan

"The word 'figure' from choreography . . . means something like a momentary attitude of the body or a fragment of a dance."
— Sue Ellen Campbell (Bringing the Mountain Home)