Quotes About Ballet Shoes

#1. Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

Jennifer Ellison

#2. I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

Marie Windsor

#3. 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

#4. You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

Patrick Swayze

#5. The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.

Christian Louboutin

#6. There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time

Jules Verne

#7. My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail.

Johnny Damon

#8. I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'

Zach Galifianakis

#9. I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

Stephen King

#10. I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

Roger Daltrey

#11. Kindness costs us nothing and pays exponential dividends.

Kate Bartolotta

#12. I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move.

Dorothy Hamill

#13. Even if one's whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

Henry Miller

#14. What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.

Robert Gottlieb

#15. A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.

Toni Bentley

#16. It is a commonplace that good historians don't judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.

Richard Dawkins

#17. And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.

Edgar Degas

#18. You are who you are. Don't be ashamed of yourself. At all. Surround yourself with people who cheer you on.

Jessica Park

#19. 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

#20. A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

Toni Bentley

#21. Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

May Sarton

#22. I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

Robert Toombs

#23. Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

Philip Sidney

#24. Tonight the light of love is in your eyes,
But will you love me tomorrow?

Carole King

#25. It takes a lot of money to be a part of the ballet world. Both the training and the supplies are expensive, the shoes, the leotards and the tights.

Misty Copeland

#26. I take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes.

Joan Chen

#27. Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.

Natalie Portman

#28. There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

Joe Madureira

#29. I met Magnus Lidehall about two years ago, and the beat that I originally wrote 'Younger' on was one of the first ones that he sent me. I must have been around 21 at that time, feeling a bit lazy and disappointed with myself and my life.

Seinabo Sey

#30. Ballet pumps are the dream shoes because they are so comfortable. They look great both with jeans and summer dresses; and you can even wear the right pair with an evening gown.

Twiggy