Dance Quote by Durga Chew-Bose

“A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables”

— Beth Hoffman

“Ballet is the faeries' baseball”

— Oscar Levant

“She walks like a ballerina in dance slippers, her feet as articulate as hands, a little vessel of grace moving out into the fog.”

— Anthony Doerr

“I opened the door and stepped down onto something squishy. It was moss, velvety smooth, creating uneven hills of emerald green across the floor…

— Margot Berwin

“I love ballet and am more interested in it than in anything else. . . . For the only form of scenic art that…

— Igor Stravinsky

“If the ocean were music, sailboats would be the ballerinas. I was never any good at dancing before. Maybe I didn’t know how.”

— Renee Carlino

“Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is a celebration…

— Martha Graham

“It’s a choreography of sorts: some birds, her mother once told her, dance before they mate.”

— Dan Vyleta

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Everything is beautiful at the ballet...

— Anonymous

“All of the ills of mankind, all of the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books ...have arisen merely from a lack of skill…

— Molière

When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find…

— Georgina Haig