On Pointe Quotes

#1. Wired people should know something about wires.

Neal Stephenson

#2. I know, darling. Your body speaks to me in ways your mouth would never agree to confessing.

Sai Marie Johnson

#3. It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

Lewis Thomas

#4. At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

Martha Graham

#5. Dancing on pointe ... Why don't they just get taller girls?

Henny Youngman

#6. 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

#7. I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

Dylan Moran

#8. I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do.

Anne Rice

#9. I can't help from drowning in your eyes. You make me wanna come and clean up all these lies. Let me up before I die. Mine. ~From Jaxon James' song, Mine

Carlene Love

#10. And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

Ani DiFranco

#11. I don't force myself to exercise; I find going to gyms really boring. I find it easier to go for a fast walk or a jog in Central Park. I wear sensible shoes because my ballet dancing left me with a bunion on one foot after all the pointe exercises.

Sarah Brightman

#12. A mind that works primarily with meanings must have organs that supply it primarily with forms.

Suzanne Langer

#13. 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

#14. Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.

Zig Ziglar

#15. Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.

Timothy Noah

#16. The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.

Pixie Lott

#17. I traced the marley floor with my pointe shoes, and imagine myself on the stage, not as a member of the corps, but as a principal dancer. It felt right. It felt like a promise. Some day, somehow, it was going to happen for me.

Misty Copeland

#18. Our pointe shoes are our instruments. If something's wrong with my feet, all my mind goes there. I usually have six pairs ready. Soft shoes for one act, stiffer shoes for another, stronger shoes for a variation with a lot of turns.

Nina Ananiashvili

#19. Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

Vivienne Westwood

#20. Pvt. Robert Fruling said he spent two and a half days at Pointe-du-Hoc, all of it crawling on his stomach. He returned on the twenty-fifth anniversary of D-Day "to see what the place looked like standing up" (Louis Lisko interview, EC).

Stephen E. Ambrose

#21. I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.

Agnes Varda

#22. The trip back from Pointe du Lac was thrilling. And the constant chatter of Lestat was positively the most boring and disheartening thing I experienced. Of course as I said, I was far from being his equal.

Anne Rice

#23. We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

Jim Rohn

#24. These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

H.W. Brands

#25. What would Christ need have done to make me follow him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with. And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair

Anne Rice

#26. He went plof and vanished. Onomatopoeia can be so very handy. Imagine if we'd had to provide a detailed description of someone disappearing. It would have taken us at least ten pages. Plof.

Jose Saramago

#27. Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

Mila Kunis

#28. 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

#29. My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Craig Venter

#30. I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.

George R R Martin

#31. I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

Paulo Coelho

#32. Looking back, perhaps the single biggest problem was fear. Fear of failure, fear of other people, but mostly fear of myself. It has taken sixty years to discover who I really am. It's never too late to find yourself however lost you may be.

Lynda Bellingham

#33. I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

Maisie Williams

#34. Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

Paul Tsongas

#35. Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

Natalie Portman

#36. I was never into the boy crazy thing because I was very focused on my career.

Christina Aguilera

#37. We live forever; but they don't come back.

Anne Rice

#38. A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

Louise Penny