"In life as in dance, grace glides on blistered feet." *Alice Abrams*
"Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment. It expresses itself in everything you do." *Shirly Maclaine*
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poror substitutes for passion." *Agnes de Mille*
"Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing." *James Brown*
"When you perform...you are out of yourself...larger and more potent, more powerful, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth, and it is yours nightly." *Agnes de Mille*
"While I dance I cannot judge. I cannot hate. I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance." *Hans Bos*
"I feel I was born to dance." *Gregg Burge*
"Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing." "Friedrich Nietzsche*
"To dance is to give oneself up to the rhythms of all life." *Dr. Maya V. Patel*
"It (dancing)is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, even after you give it up. It is with you every moment of your day and night. It is an art that expresses itself in how you walk, how you eat, how you make love, and how you do nothing. It is the art of the bosy, and as long as a dancer possesses a body, he or she feels the call of expression in dancers' terms." *Shirly Maclaine from Dancing in the Light*
"The small child at dancing class may never become a professional dancer-but the courtesies and disciplines, as well as the joy in movement, will touch her forever." *Helen Thomson*
"To sing well and to dance well is to be well-educated." *Plato*
"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the movement important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnnoticed and unused." *Martha Graham*
"The real reason I dance is because I want to explode." *Bill Evans*
"Someone once said to me that dancers work as hard as policemen: always alert, always tense. But you see, policemen don't have to be beautiful as the same time!" *George Balanchine*
"Dance can give the inarticulate a voice." *Pamela Brown*
"Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain." *Martha Graham*
"To dance is to express oneself. To dance ballet is to use oneself to express something beyond oneself." *Pamela Brown*
"If we cannot bring ourselves to dance, we become sick. Dancing heals." *Marion C. Garretty*
"DANCE IS FUN! It lifts the spirit, strengthens the body, and stimulates the mind..." *Wayne Sleep*
"When you start dancing and you feel cool, you feel like the whole world belongs to you." *Esther Boateng*
"Dance for yourself. If someone else understands, good. It not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops intertesting you." *Louis Horst*
"It is what I've always wanted to do- to show the laughing, the fun, the appetite, all of it through dance." *Martha Graham*
"Dance till the starts come down from the rafters; Dance, dance, dance till you drop." *W. H. Auden from Death's Echo"
"There is a dancer buried in even the fattest of us." *Pamela Brown*
"If we can think, feel, and move, we can dance." *Margaret N. H'Doubler from Dance: A Creative Art Experiance*
"You can dance anywhere and you can dance in your mind, in your heart." *Jacques D'Amboise*
