Ballet Quote by Woody Allen

“I will fly away to them, to the royal birds, and they will beat me, because I, that am so ugly, dare to come…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

“I want you to investigate!” she all but yelled. She managed to regain her composure and said, “That’s what you do when someone gets…

— Lucy Quinn

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of…

— Robert Gottlieb

“Their rapid, shifting, dancing motion had been so deft and graceful that it was difficult to believe that hunger was the cause of it…

— J.A. Baker

Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little…

— James Wolcott

“The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle writes that “From a scientific perspective, it was as if the researchers had traced the lineage of the world’s…

— Adam M. Grant

Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“the athletes were treated to a thunderous show that culminated in the release of twenty thousand doves. As the birds circled in panicked confusion,…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is for ordinary…

— Arthur Golden

“Faye Elms didn’t become a member of a unit called Red Rifles because she looked pretty holding one. But she was packing buckshot this…

— R.R. Washburn

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.

— Stephenie Meyer

At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom,…

— Charles Dickens