Quotes About Misty Day

#1. I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest is my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September I met the Captain for the first time.

Graham Greene

#2. [Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad veils whose beds our kin must tuck in misty-eyed.

Armineonila M.

#3. A young girl reached out to me to be her mentor one day, which I didn't really know anything about. What I did remember was what it was to be alone as an African-American dancer in the ballet world and wanting to connect with someone who looks like me.

Misty Copeland

#4. For I have seyn of a ful misty morwe Folowen ful ofte a myrie someris day.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#5. I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

Michael Rosenbaum

#6. By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. I've always approached my career and my life, you know, one day at a time, as if this was the last day that I'm going, because you never know as an athlete and as a dancer. You never know what can happen today, tomorrow.

Misty Copeland

#8. And jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops ...

William Shakespeare

#9. 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

#10. The misty morning crawleth grey from dusk to the reluctant day.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Far over misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. La mu'axsa, but I think I'll just keep sliding down this greased pole to hell?

V.S. Carnes

#13. I have the opportunity, which most people don't experience nearly as much, of being in front of a mirror up to 10 hours a day. Staring at your body, you really get to know every little detail of how to make yourself look your best.

Misty Copeland

#14. Not really. It's a just a change of address. You moved into my heart a long time ago. That's some fuckin' progress for you." As soon as the words left his mouth, he laughed. "Fuck me. I'm a Hallmark card.

Anonymous

#15. Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so humble and grounded. Being in ballet class, I feel, is like this meditation for me every morning.

Misty Copeland

#16. Cows scream louder than carrots.

Alan Watts

#17. I'd just like you to be your usual cheerful self ... smile, and stay by my side.

Sakura Tsukuba

#18. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.

Sylvia Plath

#19. We've had enough of pragmatists and self-seeking risk-takers. We need people of character.

N. T. Wright

#20. Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

William Shakespeare

#21. There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage and performing live theater. It's extremely demanding. I have to be in ballet class every day.

Misty Copeland

#22. The libido also made an early exit, as it does in most major illnesses - it is the superfluous need of a body in beleaguered emergency.

William Styron

#23. I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

Misty Copeland

#24. Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

John Updike

#25. I juice everything! Whether it's beet, carrot, or apple, I'll juice it. I always keep brown rice in the kitchen. I'll often pack a cooler full of food to have throughout the day when I'm busy.

Misty May-Treanor

#26. I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.

Misty Copeland

#27. You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)

Injap Sia

#28. I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we're much more in tune and aware because the body is our instrument and art, and we stare at ourselves in a mirror all day, but I feel like it's something that every woman experiences and every girl experiences.

Misty Copeland

#29. I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

Misty Copeland

#30. The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.

Nick Cannon

#31. I want to play the mean girl one day - or the mean gay!

Alex Newell

#32. I look for things that no one I know, even myself, would ever come up with. If your solution is something that your friends or family might come up with, throw it away.

Jeff Goodby

#33. It was a black and white day of frost, which crawled along the dark trees and outlined twig and branch. The air was misty, and distant objects assumed a mysterious importance. Slight sounds, too, suggested infinite activities to the mind.

("A Tribute Of Souls")

Robert S. Hichens

#34. It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

Neil Gaiman