You’ll do better if you have passion for something in which you have aptitude. If Warren Buffett had gone into ballet, no one would have heard of him.

Jeremy Irons of ballet.

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine.

Dancers are the flag bearers of the artistic renaissance.

Real men don’t lift weights, they lift women.

If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.

A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Dance is the guide of the spirit’s journey to the stairway of heaven.

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

Classical ballet will never die.

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.

I think it’s Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is the cohesion of music and dance.

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.

Could she press it all the way through to the floor?” And, you know, I’m not sure about that myself. The sole of your boot might give me a bit of trouble, but nothing else will. But that’s not the worrying part. The worrying part is that I was forced practically at knifepoint to take...

That day and night, the bleeding and the screaming, had knocked something askew for Esme, like a picture swinging crooked on a wall. She loved the life she lived with her mother. It was beautiful. It was, she sometimes thought, a sweet emulation of the fairy tales they cherished in their lovely, gold-edged books. They...

Beginnings of youth to growth of adolescence till autumn of life; every step journeyed with blossomed smiles wearing my dancing shoes.

I thought ‘Out of Africa’ would be a beautiful ballet.

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

If the power of love is in your heart then dance away to a universe beyond the stars.

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

Dance is the ritual of immortality

I had been wanting to do a short ballet to Schumann’s work for so long and we were finally able to get a great pianist, everything seemed to fall into place.

I feel his arm Lightly Over me.He takes one of my outstretched hands.Draws it beneath my stomach.”One more time…”This is not sex,Not friendship. SomethingStrangeSpecialIn the stillness of his breath,The waterlike way he moves.He is making a dance.We are making a dance.

Every style of dance is a tribute to the elements of the spirit.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

On the highest peak of the heavens, angels glanced at the sky and saw a glimpse of a gateway to a world of artists whose guardians were dancers.

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

Words of mankind limited in meaning to describe the enchantment that illuminates from aura of a dancer.

True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.

Judo is like a ballet, except there’s no music,and the dancers knock each other down.”

Movements of the body are a reflection of the soul.

Ballet is just a vocabulary like English. Most classical ballets emphasize how high a woman can hold her leg, how skinny she is and all the tricks she can do. She may not ever have to express anything but extreme happiness or sadness. These ballets rarely interpret life. They are fables with princesses and fairies.

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing ‘Billboards’ to Prince.

Dance is the healing treasure within your spirit that only movements of passion can set free.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

It’s great for ballet aficionados, who know what’s supposed to happen.

In this world there are thousands of healers but none possesses the medication of spiritual ecstasy like dance.

All the music from the ballet I found to be expressive and easy on the ears. I like variety . . . I am a child of too much television.

When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a magical world where every aspiration becomes a conquest.

I made the sympathetic face, and the interested face, and even the impressed face. I did not say, ‘In the name of all that is holy, cease this incessant drivel, you pretentious ass.

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.

I didn’t just want to make an abstract ballet. I wanted to create an idea. I came up with the theme of a poet, an artist or a musician searching for inspiration from a muse, from a beautiful woman.

The ancients wrote down the first scripture of choreography by observing in the night sky movements of the dancing stars.

Respect your body. Eat well. Dance forever.

Give the mind rest, do not stress too much on thoughts, close your eyes and let your spirit dance.