Baryshnikov Arts Quotes & Sayings

If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them. — William James

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. — Walter Darby Bannard

I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

The atomic bomb was created with the destruction of men in mind — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Even now, every job I get, I worry that it will be my last. I think becoming a washed-up hag is sort of my destiny. So if you see a wrinkled old bitch wearing a tattered fur and chain-smoking in an off-Broadway back alley...that's just me. Starting four years from now. — Anna Kendrick

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation. — Warren Buffett

Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world — Mother Teresa

Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. — Alexander Pope

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all. — Michel Patini