Best 390 quotes in «ballet quotes» category

And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.

Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

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.

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

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!

At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.

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 your life.

At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to ballet, but every workout of mine included training in choreography.

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

Back in high school, about two years ago, I was in this silly punk band called Ballet for Athletes. We were all trying to take it seriously, and then I realized that "punk" and "serious" aren't really two words you can put in the same sentence - at least, in my opinion.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [...] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

Ballet.something pure in this crazy world

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate

Ballet is only good when it is great.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

Classical ballet will never die.

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.