Balanchines Nutcracker Quotes & Sayings

We are all lost souls until we are found. — Kate McGahan

Because I'm even more determined to bring that light back to his eyes. And I know my love is strong enough to do it. — Faith Sullivan

[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from its Western counterpart: it has been dominated by a love of irregularity rather than symmetry, the impermanent rather than the eternal and the simple rather than the ornate. The reason owes nothing to climate or genetics, added Keene, but is the result of the actions of writers, painters and theorists, who had actively shaped the sense of beauty of their nation.
Contrary to the Romantic belief that we each settle naturally on a fitting idea of beauty, it seems that our visual and emotional faculties in fact need constant external guidance to help them decide what they should take note of and appreciate. 'Culture' is the word we have assigned to the force that assists us in identifying which of our many sensations we should focus on and apportion value to. — Alain De Botton

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home. — Theodore Parker

The Germans wit is in his fingers. — George Herbert

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. — Donna Tartt

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society. — Virginia Gildersleeve

The idea that we should augment the wealth of the richest 1 per cent so they have more to spend on charity is trickle-down theory in its baldest form. — Linsey McGoey

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others. — Lynn Coady

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Everyone can make the wrong decision - in fact, everyone will sometimes make a wrong decision. But no one needs to make a decision which, on its face, falls short of satisfying the boundary conditions. — Peter F. Drucker

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. — Robert A. Heinlein

I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody. — Olly Murs

I hate to work out. I get in a bad mood when I have to do it! — Sofia Vergara

An oppressed people are authorized whenever
they can to rise and break their fetters. — Henry Clay