Noverre Ballet Quotes & Sayings

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself. — Jean-Georges Noverre

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell. — Marjane Satrapi

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us. — G.I. Gurdjieff

Your sight takes you where there is light ... But your visions can take you through the dark places! Maintain your sight, but add your visions! — Israelmore Ayivor

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again, the most strenuous labor affords the greatest artists but a disquieting gleam which only reveals their inadequacy, while the self-satisfied ignoramus surrounded by the deepest gloom flatters himself that he has nothing more to learn. — Jean-Georges Noverre

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career. — Jean-Georges Noverre

It is a remarkable fact that we can never read or hear of the labors which our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ performed, without taking pleasure in it, while, on the other hand, there is nothing so interesting in the life and history of any other individual but what by hearing or reading it time and time again we become tired of it. — Heber J. Grant

A lot of my hair stylists and my beauty team that I work with are gay so I hang out with gays a lot and I just think they're adorable and hilarious. — Britney Spears

Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another. — Ernesto Che Guevara

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight. — Jean-Georges Noverre

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory ... — Jean-Georges Noverre

At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it. — Jean-Georges Noverre

The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement. — Jean-Georges Noverre

Cold liquid splashing across his face brought Kevin Temple back to himself. He'd been on the road all night, a dedicated run from Indiana hauling a load of fresh vegetables. Fifteen minutes out of the depot in Cleveland, and he had that stale feel, too much coffee washing down too much beef jerky. What he'd really been craving was a double cheeseburger, but while it would surprise no one to see a trucker gone flabby around — Marcus Sakey

I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age. — Jean-Georges Noverre

Depending on the strength of the relationship, level of communication and one's tolerance for discord, many people are able to get past normal skirmishes unscathed. — Carlos Wallace

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society. — Maya Harris

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. — Jean-Georges Noverre

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position. — Jean-Georges Noverre

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity. — Jean-Georges Noverre

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game. — Jurnee Smollett

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental. — Jean-Georges Noverre