“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be. — Candice Swanepoel Copy Share Image
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Being a dark black ballet dancer, there's a lot of pressure on us. I feel like I have to work ten times… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
Ballet is a healthy world despite what people might think. There's a perception that ballet dancers are skinny and unhealthy, but that's… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
I played soccer and baseball, and that's all. But what if I had been the best at like, ballet? And I didn't… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine… — William Kempe Copy Share Image
My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts'… — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
I am striving to reach the stars as a prima ballerina, but my most important reason for wanting this is because of… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
“How long the party lasted Forrester did not know. He remembered a long harangue in which the drunken ballet dancer was trying… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all… — Lea Thompson Copy Share Image
You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around. — Kevin McKenzie Copy Share Image
Sing like no one is listening, LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN HURT, dance like nobody's watcbing, and live like it's heaven on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the… — Jacques d'Amboise Copy Share Image
When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
“Madame LaFleur would say that you're more of a classical ballet dancer instead of a jazz dancer. But sometimes all you have… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.'… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
There was never really a moment that I decided that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. It's always just felt like… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
“One day a man came into the bar and ordered a pint and a pousse-cafe, adding "for our lass" in case I… — Harry Pearson Copy Share Image
The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too… — Vera Caspary Copy Share Image
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine… — Will Kemp Copy Share Image
I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to… — Elizabeth Debicki Copy Share Image
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation,… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
“Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as… — Tana French Copy Share Image
