About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers. — Adam Garcia Copy Share Image
The problems I had with the Paris Opera Ballet are a thing of the past. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet! — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York. — John Guare Copy Share Image
To me, boxing is like ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that, like any kind of career, there are many different people involved in the ballet world. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class. — Sarah Parish Copy Share Image
Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Call me twinkle toes. Honestly, in my past, one of the physically hardest classes that I have ever taken was ballet. I… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me… — Georgina Haig Copy Share Image
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with… — Essence Atkins Copy Share Image
The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm,… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I saw a spider-I didn't scream 'cause I can belch the alphabet-Just double dog dare me! And I chose guitar over ballet… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Did any of you ever see Doctor Tetrazzini perform? I say perform advisedly because his operations were performances. He would start by… — William Burroughs Copy Share Image
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or… — Tommy Tune Copy Share Image
“We break off into the streets, repairing the cobblestones with our brisk allegro. The townsfolk step aside in awe as my allongés… — Kiana Krystle Copy Share Image
Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes… — Shane Battier Copy Share Image
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
