En Pointe Quotes

#1. I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast curtseying. I took dance lessons at Miss Debbie's Dance Studio, and she put this picture of me in the storefront window. I was so unbelievably humiliated by the sight of myself.

Lisa Yuskavage

#2. En pointe she was a force, a tornado: safe to look at from a distance, but in close proximity, you risked being just another piece of her debris. Some days I thought I could only be so lucky.

Julie Murphy

#3. 5 Learning to dance en pointe is tough. It takes years and years to build up the strength, years of discipline and exercise. Even

Cathy Cassidy

#4. There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

Pablo Picasso

#5. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. The secret to recapturing dreams is to enjoy the pursuit of the dream, rather than to focus on the outcome.

T.D. Jakes

#6. Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

James Altucher

#7. For a moment I was back on the

Rick Riordan

#8. We can build our habits only on the foundation of our own nature.

Gretchen Rubin

#9. Ralph Waldo Emerson could write (in The Conduct of Life, 1860): 'The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.' Mountains

Richard Fortey

#10. At the end of the day, I just want a movie that's great, that people are going to love and laugh at and be affected by, and also have an emotional journey.

Paul Feig

#11. when parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. It is a woman, and only a woman, - a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, - who can turn a house into a home.

Frances Power Cobbe

#13. We head for the horizon, on the plane of immanence, and we return with bloodshot eyes, yet they are the eyes of the mind.

Gilles Deleuze

#14. No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#15. No," he admitted, and my instincts sang out at his reluctance. "That's across the hall."
Crutch swinging, I started for the door, almost pushing Quen out of my way. "Just over there, you say?" I said,

Kim Harrison

#16. Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.

Ben Eine

#17. Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. And now he'd taken the last of it, the last of me. But who did that make me? An extension of him? Someone new? I didn't know. Didn't want to know.

C.J. Roberts