Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Laveroni

He's a 6-foot-5, 315-pound ballerina that plays tackle. He's not a loudmouth. He just does his job. I wish young football players in Pop Warner and high school could see this guy prepare.

Bill Laveroni

He's a 6-5, 315-pound ballerina that plays offensive tackle.

Giorgio Armani

They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe,

Heather Watts

With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our time.

Shana Alexander

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.

Emilie Ravin

(Becoming a prima ballerina requires) a lot of work,

Patricia McBride

I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.

Robert Gottlieb

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

Robert Gottlieb

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.

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.

Rose McIver

If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.

M. Wolfe

I had been wanting to do a short ballet to Schumann's work for so long and we were finally able to get a great pianist, everything seemed to fall into place.

Tove Lo

I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how 'time heals' and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more 'feel the pain.'

Rob Kelly

It's the cup, and all the old cliches will come out - and they are all true. We are looking forward to it and we will give it a right good go.

Burn Gorman

The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.

Miguel Syjuco

Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful.

Antonia Bird

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.

Becky Hultberg

Former Gov. Knowles threw out a lot of easy cliches, and is very good at delivering them, but cliches aren't going to get Alaskans a gas pipeline.

Paul Rand

Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar cliches or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.

Brad Holland

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

David Margolick

This story is surrounded by myths and cliches and I worked hard to get through and find out what was true.

Nadine Velazquez

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

Michael Raab

Going forward, DaimlerChrysler's fortunes will be driven by Mercedes Benz.

Bill Cowher

He's a special person; he means a lot to this team. He's been very much an inspiration to this team. I think we're driven very much by trying to make this a special year for him.

Mario Gabelli

I think we're going from a market that's driven by momentum and driven by a flow of funds to a stock picker's market. That's going to provide very good opportunities for those that are focused on given areas.

Don Perata

I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven by a date.

Bob Thompson

I watch a lot of sports, and so far that's been what's driven the big-screen phenomenon. It's a status symbol; a lot of people get a lot of pleasure being able to show off this enormous piece of hardware.

Will Rogers

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

Walter Wriston

Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.

Todd Martin

part of it is driven by low interest rates, part of it is stimulation by governments to get people to start spending more.

Keke Palmer

I've never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

Manny Acta

I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.

Ned Colletti

His skills are very similar to earlier in his career. He knows how to play, how to win.

Scotty George

I think the market today is just perpetuating the uncertainty we've seen in the last few weeks after it hit its highs earlier in the month.

Dan Campbell

I think you've got to feel that way. But we got one stolen from us earlier this year. So we got one back.

Mark Pollard

We're proud to have him and the two kids we got earlier this spring, and I know Larry's (Coleman) got some more coming.

Mark Vitner

I think we'll see gas prices rise earlier than usual and faster.

Stacey Phillips

I think what got us done earlier in the season was more of the mental approach. That was something we were lacking in. Last weekend we were much better with our mental approach.

John Glover

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

Charlize Theron

I was a little mad at myself because I feel very fortunate,

Deshea Townsend

He is a mad man on the field.

Richard Dawkins

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Woody Allen

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

Robin Wright

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

Robert Rodriguez

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Roger Goodell

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

Sarah Waters

I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Pete Carroll

What matters to me is we accomplished everything we could possibly accomplish, ... No one will ever be able to take that away from us no matter how the polls go.

Priyanka Chopra

What matters to me is my role in the film,

Jeff Gundy

What matters is that we fouled too much, we turned it over too much, and I think we probably shot in the 20's. We didn't play well enough on offense to win. We have professional players out there, so we have no excuses.

John Agius

There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them.

Bryan Whitman

He was relieved for matters of personal conduct.

Paul Taylor

Price matters in this market. This is an increasingly price-sensitive consumer.

Ahn Soo

In the relay, what matters most is which team skates more consistently.

Jacqueline Onassis

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

Stephen Sondheim

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Mike Marsh

I watched some of the old Peter Sellers movies to pick up some of his nuances and his style of comedy. He is so unique.

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Kristan Higgins

There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!

Steven Bauer

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

Judi Shekoni

I'd actually read the 'Twilight' books and seen the movies, and I was a fan.

Michael Caine

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

Harland Williams

he says. ''I've been able to star in three movies in my career, and I still haven't done that.

Dwyane Wade

He was starting to turn red with the tape over his mouth. I was starting to get a little worried about him.

Brenda Bell

If we could get rid of these hurricanes and red tide, we'd be OK. We've just been killed this year with all of that.

Francis Coppola

I have come here to rediscover myself as an artist.

Daron Rahlves

I'd like to be wearing the red (leader's) bib in downhill.

Rose McGowan

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

Travis Tritt

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Red Barber

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

Robin Williams

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

Walter Benjamin

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Truman Capote

Talent is a valued tormentor.

William Wordsworth

A tale in everything.

Robert Rauschenberg

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

Samuel Foote

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.

Wyclef Jean

When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.

Zig Ziglar

The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being

Zig Ziglar

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.