Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sierra McCormick

If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that.

Cynthia Anderson

I think it's Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is the cohesion of music and dance.

Elizabeth Olsen

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

American Theatre

I actually quit ballet when I was 14,

Sarah Brightman

I don't force myself to exercise; I find going to gyms really boring. I find it easier to go for a fast walk or a jog in Central Park. I wear sensible shoes because my ballet dancing left me with a bunion on one foot after all the pointe exercises.

Charlize Theron

I come from a ballet background; I did ballet for 12 years and I consider that my theater. I told stories with my body for 12 years and then came into this industry. I couldn't let go of that and it's still important to me. I really wanted to learn the skills of what Aeon had. I wanted to learn gymnastics; I didn't want to just be on wires and fake everything. I learned some skills I never thought I would learn.

Lee Marvin

He moved like a cat, a ballet dancer, but there was nothing homosexual about him...He could be dangerous when drunk... He liked to fight.

Richard Saunders

Why be normal? What's the point?

Robert Caro

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Ken Hill

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

Pauline Frommer

I was in Rome, and located a Michelangelo expert. He took us to the church where Michelangelo's body was kept after he died until his family stole it back. It's a real insider-y way to the get the inside scoop on a city.

John Lindh

kept in a metal shipping container, blindfolded and immobilized by hand and foot shackles and duct tape that bound his naked body to a stretcher.

P. J. Harvey

Kids used to sit back and listen to lectures. Now they're leaning in. Body language has changed.

Veda Upanishads

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

James Gray

James Byrd at the time he was chained at the back of the pickup truck was alive, ... Not only was he alive, he was conscious at the time, and he was using his elbows and his body in any way he could to keep his head and shoulders away from the pavement.

Richard Neal

I would submit to you today that this is the easiest thing in this body that could be done with Democrats and Republicans to simplify the Tax Code.

Phillip Bloch

Ken has revamped his life mind, body and soul. Everyone knows how difficult it is to change, especially when you've lived your life a certain way for more than four decades.

Phillip Bloch

Ken has revamped his life - mind, body and soul. Everyone knows how difficult it is to change, especially when you've lived your life a certain way for more than four decades.

Marco Sullivan

I was just charging and came up a little short. I can take something out of it because I did ski really well in sections. It was just two big mistakes at the top that cost me.

Zakk Wylde

I was looking at the lyrics, and I just said, 'Man, this has gotta be Dime's tune,' so we just made it Dime's song and that's how the video came about, ... I think it's really emotional and it came out great. It's all about Dime's memory and there ain't a dry eye in the house every time you see it.

Justin Brouse

I was in the backfield and I came out on the wheel. And Corey Martin just lobbed it up to me.

Larry Dossey

I was in so much pain. I had no idea what was happening to me. I was scared and fearful. Then a nurse came by and held my hand and told me don't worry 'cause everything would be just fine. At that moment, my pain had suddenly vanished and I had no idea what had happened. It showed me how something so simple can make a huge difference.

Alex Cintron

I was in shock. I was happy, though. (Arizona) didn't have the confidence in myself. They were looking to trade me and I came here to Chicago. It is going to be good for me.

Jesse L. Martin

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

Anna Maxwell Martin

I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.

Marcus Williams

Kirk came in and was great on the boards. He made shots. He was a good sixth man off the bench. He definitely helped me out (being in foul trouble).

Robin Ross

Kevin is one of those success stories. Things hadn't worked out other places, he came here and now he's doing well academically and he's on track football wise. Those kinds of things are why you coach.

Taylor Branch

King considered himself, first and foremost, a prophet,

Steven R. McQueen

Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that's why acting wasn't something I even considered doing, as a kid.

Greg Warren

I would urge you to consider doing this now, while you?re putting in the new track you just spent $500,000 on because if you do it later, you are going to damage the track.

Denny Chin

I would urge the district attorney's office to give this a good hard look and, instead of worrying about protecting a conviction, consider dropping the matter entirely,

John Stevens

I would totally disagree with that comment. I don't think we're ever considered as a soft hockey team. We've had this conversation before, our guys that are expected to score, need to score.

Stanley Collender

Katrina could easily become a milestone in the history of the federal budget. Policies that never would have been considered before could now become standard.

Greg Raymer

is very good at figuring out his opponent. He knows when to bluff. I consider that one of his strengths.

Michael Walden

I think it can go down more and I think '06 will be a good year. The region is still considered one of the hot regions.

Natalie Land

I take it as a great honor. Just to be considered at that elite level is an honor for me. Being honored like that makes you want to prove that you deserve the award.

Jack Abraham

I think it's always pretty obvious to most of the public when something was done with heart and mind. You can't fake it.

Terry McMillan

I think that Jonathan did love me, because you can't fake this stuff.

O. J. Simpson

I will not fake my way through life

Richard P. Feynman

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

Rex Reed

F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted.

Truman Capote

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

William S. Burroughs

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

William J. Clinton

Sincerity? I can fake that.

Rich Lowry

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.

Matt Kelley

I was learning a ton and getting paid well, but I was not doing what I was most passionate about.

Troy Williamson

I wouldn't say frustrating. I would say more of a learning experience. I learned a lot of stuff.

Michael Wright

Jake has another year. He will learn how to wrestle. To be in the mix with better guys, we need to wrestle them.

Brandon Jacobs

I would want to learn from no one else but him.

Brandon McCarthy

Just to see what he thought, but I understand that things could change. I'm trying to learn a new role right now, so that's my focus.

Jody Conradt

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

Patrick Jones

I actually learned a lot. I learned about the recruiting process and what it can do for you.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Sugata Mitra

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

Troy Williamson

I wouldn't say frustrating. I would say more of a learning experience. I learned a lot of stuff.

Jody Conradt

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

Patrick Jones

I actually learned a lot. I learned about the recruiting process and what it can do for you.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Ted Cruz

Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.

Jon Kitna

He's a big part of our plan in those situations, ... He's someone who has learned what defenses are trying to do.

Brian Sabean

He's 32-years old and has learned a lot from his experience,

Malcolm Deans

I think the lessons we learned this weekend were great, even though we didn't win.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Bob Mason

He's got the talent and skills to play at this level.

Warren Sapp

He has all the skills but I've been trying to get him to get better at the little things. He's like a big sponge. You have to slap him around and throw him back in the water every now and then but he'll be right back to soak up some more.

Richard Whately

Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.

Richelle Mead

I, had an excellent instructor. One that you currently have locked up. If you want to talk about skills going to waste, then go look in your own jail.

Ryan Hall

I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.

Richard Davidson

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

William S. Burroughs

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.

William J. Clinton

When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.

Sarah Silverman

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Joe Meno

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richard Wright

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Richard Bausch

A good story needs only a good storyteller.