Air Quote by Lincoln Kirstein Download Open image “The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.” — Lincoln Kirstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Air Ballet Ballet dance Ballet dancer Dance Dancer Dancer Earth Domain Domain Ballet Earth Nature
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children. — Darcey Bussell 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
Anybody cannot be a dancer. A dancer must have a certain posture, gestures, height, behaviour. — Hema Malini Copy Share Image
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency. — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family… It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial. — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
“I mean, if you have any idea of any kind of complexity or immensity or destiny, of general order, you're put in a position… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer's body and a dancer's capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
I will be a tireless advocate for our District's defense priorities including Sheppard Air Force Base, Pantex, Bell Helicopter, universities conducting important research, and… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image