Ballet Quotes

467 Ballet quotes by 299 unique authors

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and… — Zoe Saldana
I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything… — Amanda Seyfried
All great truths begin as blasphemies. — George Bernard Shaw
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. — Robert Smith
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight… — Patrick Swayze
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. — Twyla Tharp
Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the… — Andrea Thompson
Wrestling is ballet with violence. — Jesse Ventura
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether… — Vera Wang
I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
Dancers are the athletes of God. — Albert Einstein
You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers. — James Patterson
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses. — Anton Chekhov
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to… — Douglas Adams
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet — Lord Byron
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash… — Anais Nin
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance… — Martha Graham
And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found… — Alice Sebold
It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare:… — Oscar Wilde
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers,… — Gaston Leroux
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 and I take… — Katy Perry

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