Top 38 Ninette De Valois Quotes
#1. You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.
Ninette De Valois
#2. Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.
Ninette De Valois
#3. As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.
Ninette De Valois
#4. God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?
Ninette De Valois
#6. If today you have nothing to be happy about, thank God for the potential of tomorrow.
Rickson Gracie
#7. It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
Ninette De Valois
#8. How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world
Louis De Bernieres
#9. There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.
Ninette De Valois
#10. All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.
Ninette De Valois
#11. And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
Ninette De Valois
#12. Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.
Ninette De Valois
#13. Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.
Ninette De Valois
#14. A young college graduate earns 63% more than a high-school graduate if both work full-time - and the high-school graduate is much less likely to work at all.
Anonymous
#17. One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.
Jon Meacham
#18. No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress.
Ninette De Valois
#19. The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
William Empson
#21. There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.
Edgar Allan Poe
#22. Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.
Ninette De Valois
#23. Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?
Steven Wright
#24. The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.
Ninette De Valois
#26. But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other
if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.
Erica Jong
#27. First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
Ninette De Valois
#28. My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it ... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth ...
Georgia O'Keeffe
#29. Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
Ninette De Valois
#30. All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.
Ninette De Valois
#31. Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
Ninette De Valois
#33. Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.
Ninette De Valois
#34. Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
Ninette De Valois
#35. Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
Ninette De Valois
#36. There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.
Ninette De Valois
#37. The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
Ninette De Valois
