Ballet Quotes - Page 8

• You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

  James Patterson

  Wings, Dancer, Punching

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

  Douglas Adams

  Car, Toasters, Sandwiches

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

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• Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Steps, Problem

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• Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

  Anais Nin

  Dancer, Vehemence, Crash

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• The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next to each other irreverantly. He looked at the signature. Degas.

  Irving Stone

  Girl, Wall, Light

  Irving Stone (1984). “Lust for Life”, Plume

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• At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

  Martha Graham

  Paris, Dancing, Want

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• It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Life And Love, Air

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Ballade of reading Gaol”, p.6, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.

  Gaston Leroux

  Mother, Real, Artist

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.4, e-artnow

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• 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 I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Life, Mother, Vogue Magazine

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• 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 main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

  John Green

  Writing, Funny Things, Dancing

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• Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Passion, Poor

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• 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) You’re afraid of handling explosives. (Nykyrian) One day I’m going to get over that and when I do…(Hauk) I’ll wisely stop annoying you. (Darling)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Giving, One Day

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• you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

  James Patterson

  Wings, Dancer, Ballet Dancer

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• I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Reaching Up, Sky

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• 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

  Passion, Pleasure, Yeah

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 be released at last from the dreary frenzy of time. Is that what it feels to be naked? All one's clothes are gone, yet one's mind is overladen with finery.

  Muriel Barbery

  Children, Clothes, Mind

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• Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Training, Potters, Malfoy

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• Even the ears must dance.

  Natalia Makarova

  Dance, Dancing, Ears

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a cloud - in trousers.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Clouds, Trousers

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• The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Mother, Art

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Ballet Class, Discipline

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• Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Sleep, Frustration

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Years, Dancing

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• The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

  Bill Irwin

  Dance, Powerful, Dancing

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