Nureyev Quotes

#1. As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.

Michael Bond

#2. I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break it to me that not only was he gay, but he was dead.

Jessica Brown Findlay

#3. While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

Celia Imrie

#4. Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

Billie Jean King

#5. At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.

Carla Korbes

#6. As long as my ballets are danced, I will live

Rudolf Nureyev

#7. You live as long as you dance.

Rudolf Nureyev

#8. I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

Rudolf Nureyev

#9. My motto is, if it isn't beneficial it isn't necessary. So, if it doesn't benefit me why am I even considering this bullshit?

Drumma Boy

#10. I wouldn't like to see Cuba change in other ways. And the trouble is when Fidel [Castro] does go - I am sure he will at some stage. He will probably be replaced by some sort of Western capitalism, ultimately.

John Gimlette

#11. I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.

Jack LaLanne

#12. At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

E. M. Forster

#13. Of course I have a personal life.

Rudolf Nureyev

#14. The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

Rudolf Nureyev

#15. We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.

Pedro Martinez

#16. The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. We danced with one body, one soul ... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

Rudolf Nureyev

#18. What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

Rudolf Nureyev

#19. Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

Federico Chini

#20. The only critic is a full house.

Rudolf Nureyev

#21. Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

Rudolf Nureyev

#22. Obviously there are exceptions, but I suspect that for many people the main reason they cling to religion is not that it is consoling, but that they have been let down by our educational system and don't realize that non-belief is even an option.

Anonymous

#23. When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

Rudolf Nureyev

#24. A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

Rudolf Nureyev

#25. I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect.

Edward Gibbon

#26. I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.

Rudolf Nureyev

#27. I am still on stage. If you read Press ... you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

Rudolf Nureyev

#28. For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#29. The funnel of my family's salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman's toes

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#30. For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

Rudolf Nureyev

#31. I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.

Rudolf Nureyev

#32. There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

Rudolf Nureyev

#33. My feet are dogs.

Rudolf Nureyev

#34. I'm really alive when I'm on stage,

Rudolf Nureyev

#35. And although college-age people might enjoy having a ministry specifically designed for them, there is a much greater desire to be a part of our churches as a whole. This deeper connection is what's often missed.

Chuck Bomar

#36. I need someone physically stronger than me ... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.

Angelina Jolie

#37. 'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

John Battelle

#38. The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Storm Jameson