Plie Quotes

#1. I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

Robin Williams

#2. My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#3. Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

Dani Shapiro

#4. This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Bertrand Russell

#5. Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.

Jim Beaver

#6. I felt, just then, a kind of indebtedness to green, the colour.

Janet Frame

#7. Do you want to be made well? I like this question for all that's behind it. The healers are asking: Are you willing to have a new experience? You know sickness, but you don't know wellness. You've learned how to manage what you do know. You know it like the back of your hand.

Monica A. Coleman

#8. Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

William J. Clinton

#9. There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. Quentin Carmody didn't do early mornings, heights or bossy women.

Ros Baxter