Ballet Leap Quotes & Sayings

I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers. — Vickie Winans

Ignorance peels away as knowledge is acquired. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. — Charles Dudley Warner

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all. — Iain Pears

Was she pregnant then?' asked Assad. Judging by the number of family members in his photos, it was a feminine condition with which he was quite familiar. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

Without that discovery of the "moving photo," the world today would not be what it is: the new technology has become, primo, the principal agent of stupidity (incomparably more powerful than the bad literature of old: advertisements, television series); and secundo, the agent of worldwide indiscretion (cameras secretly filming political adversaries in compromising situations, immortalizing the pain of a half-naked woman laid out on a stretcher after a street bombing). It is true that film as art does also exist, but its significance is far more limited than that of film as technology, and its history is certainly shorter than that of any other art. — Milan Kundera

Once you know magic is real, it's really hard to remember what it was like not to know. — Laini Taylor

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

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' — Brian Ferneyhough

To be sensitively aware of thought, of feeling, of the world about you, of your office and of nature, is to explode from moment to moment in affection. Without affection, every action becomes burdensome and mechanical and leads to decay. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In the case of two actors connecting with each other and trusting each other, our bodies have memories without us having to consciously think about it, so rather than think, "Oh, I must think about my daughter dying," you just let that go and trust that you have all the emotions you need in there, and by losing yourself in the scene, that stuff kicks in without having to spend the day thinking about horrific things happening to your own child. — Michael Sheen

Become totally empty
Quiet the restlessness of the mind
Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness — Lao-Tzu