Darcey Quotes

#1. You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.

Darcey Bussell

#2. Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.

Darcey Steinke

#3. Being a mother has made my life complete.

Darcey Bussell

#4. The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

Darcey Steinke

#5. Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff.

Anne Robinson

#6. Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions.

Darcey Steinke

#7. As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

Darcey Steinke

#8. When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.

Darcey Steinke

#9. Simplicity is the language of leadership.

Farshad Asl

#10. I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.

Darcey Steinke

#11. The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

Sloane Crosley

#12. It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

Darcey Bussell

#13. What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers?

Darcey Steinke

#14. I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

Darcey Steinke

#15. I always think to myself, being human, having crushes now, what is it about that person that I really want? What do they represent? More freedom? Someone to care for me more? It's never really about the person.

Darcey Steinke

#16. Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

Philip Wylie

#17. One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.

Tommy Lee

#18. The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.

Darcey Steinke

#19. I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.

Darcey Steinke

#20. Where liberty dies, evil grows.

Hamid Karzai

#21. Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

Darcey Steinke

#22. You can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you've lived with them and shared experience: sadness, joy, living - you've got to share living before you can find love. Being in love doesn't last, but you can find love to take its place.

Stan Barstow

#23. But if there were some version of luminol, the stuff they use to find blood at crime scenes, to detect the presence of grief, half the people we pass on the street would light up like Christmas trees. I

Darcey Bell

#24. You'll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

Darcey Steinke

#25. When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

Darcey Steinke

#26. I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

Darcey Steinke

#27. A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

Darcey Steinke

#28. Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

Darcey Steinke

#29. Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

Darcey Bussell

#30. Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

John Dramani Mahama

#31. I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

Darcey Steinke