Quotes About Nutcracker

#1. I can see why they named that ballet the Nutcracker. It's gotta hurt having 'em crushed in something that tight.

Mark A. Cooper

#2. Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

Jerry Rice

#3. I'm convinced hell is actually an eternity of being a snowflake in Nutcracker.

Kat Howard

#4. He wants to know why my marks aren't better. Why I don't speak fluent French. Why I can't kill a fully grown man with a nutcracker.

Gail Carriger

#5. The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.

Ansel Elgort

#6. 'The Nutcracker' is the ballet that keeps on giving.

David H. Koch

#7. When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn't get a job and I couldn't eat meat.

Bobcat Goldthwait

#8. You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

Natalia Makarova

#9. There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

Gladys Taber

#10. There is no such thing as neutrality where the gospel is concerned.

Bruce R. McConkie

#11. Maybe's he's just jealous I have hair.

Alexander Ovechkin

#12. With more than thirty thousand suicides a year, the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States.

Craig Johnson

#13. Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Herb Shriner

#14. There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.

Conn Iggulden

#15. The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.

Robert Gottlieb

#16. Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren't necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching 'The Nutcracker,' and that's fine. I enjoy both.

Katori Hall

#17. I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#18. I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Leslie Banks

#19. I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the 'Nutcracker Ballet.' I got involved.

Todrick Hall

#20. Speculating is the application of intellectual examination and systematic analysis to the problem of the uncertain future.

Jim Paul

#21. Goodbye, Zahra," says the princess, and she pulls her arm back, preparing to throw the lamp.
"Do it, Princess," says a voice, "and I will tear your head from your shoulders.

Jessica Khoury

#22. The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale ...

Vera Nazarian

#23. He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.

William Faulkner

#24. A first class professional nutcracker who might have done a job about a week ago; stolen some bells.

Philip Kerr

#25. He poked her shoulder. 'Ellie? Ellie?'
'What? Oh, I'm sorry.' Her face colored, even though she knew he couldn't possibly read her thoughts. 'Just woolgathering.'
'Darling, you were practically hugging a sheep.

Julia Quinn

#26. Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

Edward Abbey

#27. When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway.

Robert Gottlieb

#28. I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.

Matthew Bourne

#29. If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#30. In some instances, I don't care what people think. In other instances, I do - especially because of the stereotype. People take a look at me and say, 'She's cute. She's blond. She's an actress. She's a bimbo.' You know? So I take great pains to show I'm intelligent, to show I'm not a twinkie.

Teri Polo

#31. I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

Laurieann Gibson

#32. One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'

Gian Carlo Menotti