Quotes by Ballet Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. Benjamin Disraeli carriages ballet dancing So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance. Benjamin Harkarvy magic ballet dance In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer. Benjamin Millepied dancer eight ballet I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me. Bob Fosse ballet feelings thinking There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. Bruce Springsteen opera ballet song You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will. Buddy Ebsen ballet lessons negative Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. C. L. R. James opera ballet theatre There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat. Cam Newton ballet football war All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too. Camara Laye dancer beats ballet 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. Camille Paglia rising ballet world Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. Camille Paglia ballet boys heaven I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be. Candice Swanepoel dancer ballet growing-up Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. Carine Roitfeld tall ballet Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet. Carine Roitfeld tradition ballet fashion I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour. Catherine Zeta-Jones hours wall ballet Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. Charles Baudelaire ballet dancing dance Even when she walks one would believe that she dances. Charles Baudelaire ballet dance believe If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet. Charlie Munger ballet independent character Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet. Christian Lacroix ballet theatre children It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design. Christian Siriano ballet design art «1234567891011»