Kirstein Quotes

#1. I don't necessarily respect other people's religions, or any religion. But the people--I respect them, and I give them the honor they deserve, whatever they believe.

Rosemary Kirstein

#2. The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

James Cook

#3. Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

Lincoln Kirstein

#4. He was one of the five soldiers. He was wearing red then." Bel looked back. "Well, he's wearing red now.

Rosemary Kirstein

#5. Man's invention of God is nothing short of a full-blown tragedy.

Abigail Landsbrook

#6. There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

Rachel McAdams

#7. Home will never go away Home will be here when you come back You may go to bring back fortune You may go to escape misfortune You may even go, just because you want to go But when you come back We hope you'll come back Home will still be here.

Imbolo Mbue

#8. Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.

Lincoln Kirstein

#9. My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

Dan Fogelberg

#10. In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

Lincoln Kirstein

#11. Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well.

Marianne Williamson

#12. All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.

Heather Marsh

#13. She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

Lincoln Kirstein

#14. If you see the Black Banners coming from Khurasan, go to them immediately, even if you must crawl over ice, because indeed amongst them is the Caliph, Al Mahdi. Then from the direction of the East will emerge black flags. FROM THE HADITH

Charles H. Dyer

#15. People need truth! They need it to be happy, to know what to do, to live!" Rowan

Rosemary Kirstein

#16. Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

Lincoln Kirstein

#17. But the thing to do when you have to do something hard is just dig in and do it. After a while, it being hard doesn't matter anymore. It's just what you're doing, and you keep on doing it.

Rosemary Kirstein

#18. All the fear in the world is not going to change anything, only rob me of what little I have.

Anne Perry

#19. The whole bathhouse had been given over to laundry, which never struck Steffie as a good idea, what with who knows who having been in there after having been who knows where and having been in he didn't want to think what.

Rosemary Kirstein

#20. The change, she knew, was only in herself; she was relieved of deception, and her mind was free to work on its familiar paths. She recognized for the first time that lies worked damage in two directions.

Rosemary Kirstein

#21. The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

Lincoln Kirstein