Quotes About Swan Lake

#1. I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

Graeme Murphy

#2. The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

Gary Shteyngart

#3. Hell, he thought maybe they were hippos in tutus doing Swan Lake, the way everything flipped and bounced.

K.C. Wells

#4. Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.

Ellen Barkin

#5. By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

Carla Korbes

#6. Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.'

David Hallberg

#7. Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

Fred Reed

#8. Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

Natalia Makarova

#9. I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.

Robert Gottlieb

#10. I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

William Kempe

#11. What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

Robert Gottlieb

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

Natalia Makarova

#13. The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning.

Robert Gottlieb

#14. Once you become a professional, to get through a ballet like 'Swan Lake' - four acts as the lead, changing character - the perseverance is incredible. It takes a lot to make it through and keep the same energy throughout the entire performance.

Misty Copeland

#15. 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

Benjamin Millepied

#16. One Mother's Day, he gave Mom a music box that played the theme from Swan Lake. She cried for days over it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#17. There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Thomas Hood

#18. The more you know the less the better.

Billy Connolly

#19. All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

Liz Smith

#20. After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

Robert Breault

#21. He had danced with fair maidens before, but Odette was different. She was graceful and beautiful, but there was something in her eyes and in the things she said, an intelligence and a boldness that belied her quiet demeanor.

Melanie Dickerson

#22. Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.

Munia Khan

#23. As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

Diego Rivera

#24. Every morning
before the birds start
trilling me their stories,
I give birth to a new love
through my same old heart
when a lake's placidity
finds life in the swans breath
Only for you...

From the poem 'Only For You

Munia Khan

#25. Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!

William Wordsworth

#26. I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Brian Eno