Dance Pointe Quotes & Sayings

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies — Paulo Coelho

I have been to Switzerland a handful of times, and it is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to climb. — Tommy Caldwell

I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast curtseying. I took dance lessons at Miss Debbie's Dance Studio, and she put this picture of me in the storefront window. I was so unbelievably humiliated by the sight of myself. — Lisa Yuskavage

I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on. — Sally Kellerman

I come from a poor family. — Manny Pacquiao

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! — Martha Graham

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion. — Jan Struther

The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day. — Pixie Lott

5 Learning to dance en pointe is tough. It takes years and years to build up the strength, years of discipline and exercise. Even — Cathy Cassidy

Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, it's a failure. You need to be surprised if you want it to be magical. — Amy Arbus

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. — Honore De Balzac

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds. — Neil Gaiman

I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally. — Meg Wolitzer