Plisetskaya Dances Quotes

#1. There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.

August Krogh

#2. Beings in existence thus are annihilated from moment to moment, and this gives rise to time. The process whereby time is engendered by this moment-to-moment annihilation may be likened to a row of dots and a line.

Yukio Mishima

#3. Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

John Wooden

#4. Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school.

Joseph Heller

#5. Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

Nicolas Chamfort

#6. Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

Henry A. Kissinger

#7. I'm not gonna box Ruiz ... I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.

James Toney

#8. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hill

#9. Geoffrey looked startled to see both his great-uncles bearing down upon him with such haste; he hadn't realized men their age could move so fast.

Sharon Kay Penman

#10. My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

Nigel Rees

#11. A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

W.G. Sebald

#12. Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#13. For instance, I love the movie Casablanca. Who doesn't? No matter how many egghead critics declare Citizen Kane to be the greatest American movie, we all know it's Casablanca in fact.

Andrew Klavan

#14. It's never the value of water but thirst, it's never the value of life but death and it's never about the friendship but trust.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

#15. Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.

Steve Pavlina