Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Boal

The big thing about the season is the festival. I'm excited because it's going to include many parts of the community, for example Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

James Buckley

Ballet is just a vocabulary like English. Most classical ballets emphasize how high a woman can hold her leg, how skinny she is and all the tricks she can do. She may not ever have to express anything but extreme happiness or sadness. These ballets rarely interpret life. They are fables with princesses and fairies.

Cherie Lunghi

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.

Jillian Rose Reed

When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.

Susan Stroman

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.

Ninette de Valois

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence

Ninette de Valois

Classical ballet will never die.

Maureen O'Hara

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

Tom Wopat

These classic shows deserve to be revived. Otherwise, people have no context for these great songs which become such a visceral part of our awareness.

S. Walker

This is great news for The Johnnie Walker Classic and is a true reflection of its standing as one of the most competitive, international and high profile tournaments in the world.

Elizabeth Searle

This is the classic envy story. And it was just so strange, and got stranger by the day.

Annika Sorenstam

The Mizuno Classic has been good to me, ... This is the first time I've had no bogeys in a 54-hole round and the first time with no 3-putts so I was very consistent and solid.

John Baumann

We did it the classic way. We went to a gear shop, got some ropes and then were wise enough to back away when we realized we needed more training. Luckily, we picked something forgiving, nothing that was too outrageous or too difficult.

Elisha Cuthbert

We have a lot of throwbacks to, I think, the classic ideas of what horror film was all about, I think when we were younger.

Paul Kocin

You got some wind up there. And how many January days do you get temperatures of 60 early in the morning? That's a sign of how unusual the storm was. It was not your classic nor'easter.

Clive James

An education without a Bible education is no education.

Raymond Sokolov

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E. B. White

Any time a kid dies it's hard. People are very saddened about this.

Yvonne Hester

The theory is that her owner was either a truck driver or owns a diesel car.

Janis Joplin

The more you live, the less you die.

Bram Stoker

Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)

Brother Lawrence

Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?

Koichiro Matsuura

When a language dies it is a vision of the world that disappears.

Drew Carey

I always thought I was going to die before I was 60.

Christopher Paolini

Better to die than to live in fear.