"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

"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."
— Ann Richards

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

"Do you want me to bolt the doors so you can massacre the unsuspecting townsfolk? -Bella"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

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

"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

""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

"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

"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing."
— Herman Hesse (Steppenwolf)

"'I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?'"
— Judy Blundell (What I Saw And How I Lied)

"Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."
— Gustave Flaubert

"We're fools whether we dance or not so we might as well dance."
— Japanese Proverb

"A fit encomium for marital bliss," Beaumont said, putting down his knife and fork. "Dancing to a tune one neither likes nor understands, with a partner who thinks you a cadaver."
— Eloisa James (Desperate Duchesses)

"My advice is that one should always know if one is dancing for the joy of it, an audience or a puppet master, what the music is and how fast it's playing. It's also good to remember that it is not always neccessary to be dancing at all."
— Karen Anderson Miller

"Wohl niemand tanzt, wenn er nüchtern ist, er müsste denn den Verstand verloren haben."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India. "
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"Dancing Towards Bethlehem

If there is only enough time in the final
minutes of the 20th century for one last dance
I would like to be dancing it slowly with you,
say, in the ballroom of a seaside hotel.
My palm would press into the small of your back

as the past hundred years collapsed into a pile
of mirrors or buttons or frivolous shoes,
just as the floor of the 19th century gave way
and disappeared in a red cloud of brick dust.

There will be no time to order another drink
or worry about what was never said,
not with the orchestra sliding into the sea
and all our attention devoted to humming
whatever it was they were playing. "
— Billy Collins

"Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!"
— Jackie French (Lady Dance)

"He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons."
— P.G. Wodehouse (The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories)

"When the going starts to get rough
And you feel like you've had enough,
Let the music take control of your soul
Take a chance and do what you feel
You're a force they can not live without it
You gotta break the chain
There's a passion inside
In a strength that drives
Can't nobody take that away from you
Its the greatest high
Set the floor on fire
When you come alive
We're dancing"
— P.Y.T.

"If I have to read that "dance like no one is watching quote" one more time, someone is going to get stabbed."
— Lobstergirl