Ballet Quotes

467 Ballet quotes by 299 unique authors

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic… — Audrey Hepburn
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the… — John Green
Yo, dumbass. What do you think she’d be doing with them? Giving them ballet lessons? (Darling) Tell me again why I can’t kill him? (Hauk)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers! — James Patterson
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies — Paulo Coelho
I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion. — Sarah Rees Brennan
As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of the snowflakes, to… — Muriel Barbery
Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Even when she walks one would believe that she dances. — Charles Baudelaire
Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot. — Joel Salatin
Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate — Matsuo Basho
I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world. — Richard Kadrey
He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious. He was a punk, she did ballet, what more can… — Avril Lavigne
…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little.… — Sylvia Plath
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. — Isaac Asimov
Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer, though." Tod laughed… — Rachel Vincent
Movements are as eloquent as words. — Isadora Duncan
So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know,more than they should. And… — Rainbow Rowell
Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space,… — Paulo Coelho
Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old. — Paulo Coelho
Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other. — Unknown Author
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible — Agnes de Mille
The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet,… — Unknown Author
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort… — W. Somerset Maugham
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. — Wystan Hugh Auden

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