Short Ballet Quotes

#1. The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

Nadine Gordimer

#2. At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks.

Sascha Radetsky

#3. I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

Kate Adie

#4. Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Khalil Gibran

#5. We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

Dorothy Height

#6. I always bring back books for the library. Books have everything in them. After the end of the world, you cannot learn a goddamned thing from a computer or a television screen.

Andrew Smith

#7. Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

#8. How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.

James Grahame

#9. And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

Rick Mercer

#10. The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

John Guare

#11. Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.

Fred Armisen

#12. I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me.

Solange Knowles