Ballet Quotes

467 Ballet quotes by 299 unique authors

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. — Bill Tilden
Classical ballet will never die. — Ninette de Valois
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint… — Ann Hood
Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus! — Deborah Wiles
Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, "This is really… — Dannii Minogue
I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers. — Adam Garcia
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. — Julia Child
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers… — Shana Alexander
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life… — John Guare
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why… — A J Liebling
My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so… — Shuler Hensley
I love ballet and I love dancing...... It's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline… — Penelope Cruz
I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet. — Leslie Caron
I'd really like to get to do some fighting, some martial arts training, because I think that would be really fun I do gymnastics and… — Anna Paquin
I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to… — Miranda Otto
I wanted to be a ballet teacher. — Jaclyn Smith
I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was… — Vera-Ellen
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance. — Nastassja Kinski
I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk.… — Sanaa Lathan
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf… — Vince Gill
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the… — George Balanchine
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations. — Jane Jacobs
I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long… — Lily Aldridge
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying… — Craig Claiborne

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