Petipa Quotes

#1. I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

Kathy Acker

#2. Dying would have been so much easier.

Megan Whalen Turner

#3. I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!

Philippe Petit

#4. The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.

Robert Gottlieb

#5. They linger yet, Avengers of their native land." - Gray

James Fenimore Cooper

#6. We all have issues. Human beings are flawed, and all we can hope for is to work toward making ourselves better. Not perfect, just better.

L. H. Cosway

#7. I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half hour to the top of this mountain, and you ski down; it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.

Sebastian Bach

#8. I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.

Jack Palance

#9. Where we go is not determined by where we want to go.

Marty Rubin

#10. Maybe in life, most of us feel inferior because we compare our dress rehearsals to [Janelle Monae's] final performance.
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Bill Konigsberg

#11. I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.

Marius Petipa

#12. My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

John Irving

#13. Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Richard Dawkins