Balletic Quotes

#1. The image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art
plastic, musical, poetic, balletic
serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#2. I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.

Michelle Ryan

#3. The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.

Brigid Brophy

#4. Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.

Matthew Bourne

#5. The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.

Nick Frost

#6. Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision.

Richard Corliss

#7. I like the collarbone, a very clean collarbone. I think there's something also very delicate and balletic about that part of a woman's body, and I'm not really a cleavage person, but I do like a back or a shoulder; I think there's something very alluring about backless dresses.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#8. She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.

Dave Eggers

#9. What is it? A prize or something?
No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.

Melina Marchetta

#10. As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

Adam Michnik

#11. We all knew that we could grieve only for a short while in order to continue staying alive.

Ishmael Beah

#12. If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

G.K. Chesterton

#13. In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

Francis Crick

#14. Trust me, if murder was legal, I'd have killed dozens of people by now.

J.T. Geissinger

#15. I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket.

Noah Baumbach

#16. If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.

Elizabeth Thornton

#17. In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

Charles Babbage

#18. Nature awakens in brilliant colors of autumn, making me wish winter would bid adieu.

Richelle E. Goodrich