Quotes About Nijinsky

#1. Tell me something, Noah. Which is more important: freedom or happiness?'
What was this, a game? But Nijinsky wasn't smiling.
'You can't be happy unless your free,' Noah said.

Michael Grant

#2. If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

A.J. Liebling

#3. I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

Alan Bennett

#4. I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

Stephen Lang

#5. because none of you know what you want follow me
because I'm not going anywhere
I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in
look at my legs I am the Nijinsky of dreams

Frank Stanford

#6. The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

W. H. Auden

#7. When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#8. Keep poking things with your stick and it'll be okay.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

Anton Chekhov

#10. I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#11. People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#12. They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#13. And yes. I'd totally just compared the only guy I'd ever felt this way about to a ham sandwich.

Jenna Evans Welch

#14. Destiny's Child literally taught me how to sing.

Katy B

#15. The US Open flag eliminates a lot of players. Some players just weren't meant to win the US Open. Quite often, they know it.

Jack Nicklaus

#16. In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

Tina Turner

#17. My madness is my love towards mankind.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#18. Shine as light in the darkness of every human sphere of life

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I am not crying, but have tears in my heart.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#20. If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

Gautama Buddha

#21. I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#22. Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Samuel Johnson

#23. People have nothing to do and therefore they interfere with the life of others. I dont want to interfere with the life of others.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#24. I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#25. Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

Barton Gellman