I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 381
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Mata Hari (1876 - 1917)
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly1 in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), Farewell my Youth (1943)
