twist quotes

Learn then to dance, you that are princes born, And lawful lords of earthly creatures all; Imitate them, and thereof take no scorn, (For this new art to them is natural) And imitate the stars celestial. For when pale death your vital twist shall sever, Your better parts must dance with them forever.

- SirJohn Davies
  Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing, stanza 60.

I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

-John Ehrlichman
  Of Patrick Gray, regarding his nomination as Director of the FBI. Taped conversation with  John Dean, reported in the Washington Post, 27  Jul.