Lincoln Kirstein Quotes

#1. The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air. - Author: Lincoln Kirstein

#2. In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love. - Author: Jack Kornfield

#3. Freedom begins as we become conscious of it. - Author: Vernon Howard

#4. It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages? - Author: William Booth

#5. Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Author: Lincoln Kirstein

#6. AHA!" screamed a voice from overhead ... Peeves was hanging upside down from a chandelier and grinning maliciously at them.
"Potty asked Loony to go to the party! Potty lurves Loony! Potty luuuuurves Looooooony!"
And he zoomed away, cackling and shrieking, "Potty loves Loony! - Author: J.K. Rowling

#7. There was a chemical solution to all of America's food needs, which had been whittled away for years and years and honed down with precision to train the public that everything they needed to put on the table for their family came in a box, bottle or can. - Author: Kenneth Eade

#8. Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart. - Author: William Pitt

#9. She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity. - Author: Lincoln Kirstein

#10. But each country has to advance and move at its own speed. - Author: Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#11. 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. - Author: Lincoln Kirstein

#12. uncommon valor was a common virtue - Author: Chester Nimitz

#13. Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon. - Author: Lincoln Kirstein

#14. Human believe what they want to believe and individual could believe according to his mind that why human never has any agreement on one ideology. - Author: Zaman Ali

#15. Whereas babies are essentially helpless creatures for many months, puppies come into this world as little survival machines, revealing their true animal natures almost immediately after they are born. - Author: Anonymous

#16. There's no friends like the old friends. - Author: James Joyce

#17. 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. - Author: Lincoln Kirstein

#18. I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera. - Author: Fritz Lang

#19. I have never been much of a painter. - Author: Christian Marclay

#20. We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health. - Author: Bruce Lipton

#21. My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car. - Author: Aubrey De Grey