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.

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.

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.

Vanessa Carlton

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world

Larry Klayman

In the ballet world, obviously, people are small-breasted. On Broadway, what happened should be an attribute.

Ann Hood

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.

Karen Kain

The ballet was a turning point for the company when it premiered in 1972 and I am happy to be able to celebrate this landmark work as we open in our new home.

Drew Seeley

I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.

James Mooney

At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

Robert Gottlieb

The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities.

Michael Clarke

But that's why I had to. I couldn't finish anything, or communicate, or make decisions about what the dancers should do. I was at a very isolated place in my mind. I was always incredibly obsessive about my work, and I don't know how much I made that more extreme by drug use. But I'm glad not to be that person now.

Kimberly Schmitz

The American Indian Exposition has a new twist this year. It's not just American Indians. They have dancers from South America. They are here to show their wares as well.

Carla Korbes

Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.

Paul Taylor

But painters are different, ... It's paint, paint, paint. It's a mania. But choreographers can't do that. You have to have your dancers to do it.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Michael Santos

John always had his heart in this village. Sometimes he thought he was the village. He was a great ambassador. He put Brewster on the map on several occasions.

Dave Morris

I was a nervous wreck until she said it was the real thing,

Valerie Fleming

I was a little nervous that I wasn't going to be able to race. But it all worked out and I got to the podium.

Carlos Franco

He wasn't nervous because he's won three times on the Nationwide Tour.

Mykal Riley

I don't have a timetable. I'm not nervous or worried about it.

Hale Irwin

I'd be telling a tall one if I said I wasn't nervous down the stretch,

Dennis Setzer

I am kind of nervous about the championship thing.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

Paul Newton

I'm excited. I think I got over nervous at the end of July.

Valerie Fleming

This is all new for me, but I'm nervous like it's just a race-off. Which is good, because I'm not freaking out over it being the Olympics.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.