“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world, — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried. — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do. — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did. — Harold Nicholas Copy Share Image
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
We dance to difference genres such as krumping, ballet and hip-hop, together with invited foreign choreographers who are well-known internationally. — Jennie Copy Share Image
And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
My parents sent me to a ballet class which lasted no time at all - I couldn't really dance. So they sent… — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished.… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique… — John Simon Copy Share Image
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're… — Frankie Manning Copy Share Image
“Nijinsky in 'Le Spectre de la rose' was like nothing I'd seen before. He danced a fifteen-minute solo and it passed like… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
When you train as a dancer, you understand you have to work exceptionally hard. I think dancers are the hardest - working… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs… — Alois Podhajsky Copy Share Image
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Classic Ballet, Keep away, keep building your creaky fairy castles, keep cloning clones and meaningless manners, hang on to your beanstalk ballerinas… — Paul Taylor Copy Share Image
