Quotes & Sayings About Pavlova

Once upon a time the English knew who they were. — Anna Pavlova

The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder. — Anna Pavlova

Let us touch each other
while we still have hands,
palms, forearms, elbows ...
Let us love each other for misery,
torture each other, torment,
disfigure, maim,
to remember better,
to part with less pain. — Vera Pavlova

Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened, — Vera Pavlova

Play the last measure very softly. — Anna Pavlova

Nature is the greatest developer of art. — Anna Pavlova

Get my swan costume ready. — Anna Pavlova

Dancing is my gift and my life ... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness. — Anna Pavlova

Thought's surface: word.
Word's surface: gesture.
Gesture's surface: skin.
Skin's surface: shiver. — Vera Pavlova

Dropped
and falling
from such
heights
for so
long
that
maybe
I will have
enough time
to learn
flying — Vera Pavlova

When I see you plodding along through the rain in dull, drab mackintoshes, with your noses tucked into your collars, I long to offer you a little advice. It is this: fight the weather with contrasts ... You must create an artificial sun to replace the one who has hidden himself. So why not a brighter note in your dress instead of the eternal grey, black, brown or navy? — Anna Pavlova

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. — Anna Pavlova

If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it. — Anna Pavlova

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual — Anna Pavlova

Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do. — Anna Pavlova

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal. — Anna Pavlova

Where there is no heart there is no art. — Anna Pavlova

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits. — Anna Pavlova

... if necessary, the books shall be divided as follows:
you get the odd, I get the even pages;
"the books" are understood to mean the ones we used to read aloud
together, when we would interrupt our reading for a kiss,
and would get back to the book after half an hour ... — Vera Pavlova

Rhythm is a fundamental fact of life, the key, indeed, to the universe. — Anna Pavlova

We're going to change. We're going to throw out what's worse in us
and keep what's best. But come hell or high water, we three will stick
together, all for one, one for all. We're going to grow, Cathy,
physically, mentally, and emotionally. Not only that, we're going to
reach the goals we've set for ourselves. I'll be the best damned
doctor the world's ever known and you will make Pavlova seem like an
awkward country girl. — V.C. Andrews

We lay down, and the pain let up.
We embraced, and the pain let go:
no more scalding regrets,
no scorching remorse
that oppressed the soul,
that weighted like a stone on the heart.
You, on top of me, heavy, immense,
and I, feeling so light. — Vera Pavlova

Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been. — Vera Pavlova

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds. — Anna Pavlova

The first kiss in the morning
tastes like the first kiss on earth.
My waking soul is innocent,
as I lie next to the tenant
of my best dreams.
When I caress him I know:
a kiss is preverbal,
a word is a kiss's junior. — Vera Pavlova

Do you really not know that to praise a woman's mind is to abuse her? Is everyone not convinced that where there's cleverness there's no heart? Has it not been decided that a clever woman is a sort of monster who can feel nothing? Ask anyone, they'll all tell you so. — Karolina Pavlova

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment. — Anna Pavlova

Why is the word yes so brief?
it should be
the longest,
the hardest,
so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,
so that upon reflection you could stop
in the middle of saying it. — Vera Pavlova

The only thing I hope for is that, regardless of what the outward world is for different people, different nations, I hope their internal world is similar. And if I, hopefully, have managed to somehow describe my inner world in this book, all I count on is that it will have some resonance among the American readers, or, at the very least, the American readers will treat this book as a kind of a guidebook for my inner world, strange as it may appear. — Vera Pavlova

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator. — Anna Pavlova

A Remedy for Insomnia
Not sheep coming down the hills,
not cracks on the ceiling
count the ones you loved,
the former tenants of dreams
who would keep you awake,
once meant the world to you,
rocked you in their arms,
those who loved you ...
You will fall asleep, by dawn, in tears. — Vera Pavlova

I have brushed my teeth.
This day and I are even. — Vera Pavlova

If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead. — Anna Pavlova

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. — Anna Pavlova

My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert. — Deborra-Lee Furness

The right to happiness is fundamental. — Anna Pavlova

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success. — Anna Pavlova

I broke your heart.
Now barefoot I tread
on shards. — Vera Pavlova

To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success. — Anna Pavlova

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's. — George Balanchine

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success. — Anna Pavlova

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural. — Anna Pavlova

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work. — Anna Pavlova

Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English. — Anna Pavlova

The only excuse for dancing is grace and beauty of movement. — Anna Pavlova

I danced from the moment I could stand. — Anna Pavlova

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life. — Bill Tilden

If I can not dance, I shall die! — Anna Pavlova

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body. — Anna Pavlova