Ballet Quotes

Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

-Martha Graham

In life, as in the dance grace glides on blistered feet.

-Alice Abrams

Give me but one firm spot to stand on and I will move the world.

-Archimedes

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in every thing you do.

-Shirley Maclaine

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

-Agnes de Mille

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

-Fred Shero

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to realize they were impossible.

-Doug Larsen

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

-Carrie Fisher

Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing.

-James Brown

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

-Helen Keller

Whatever you think you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.

-Goethe

When you perform...you are out of yourself...larger, and more potent, more powerful, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.

-Agnes de Mille

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen, always alert, always tense, but see policemen don't have to be beautiful at the same time.

-George Balanchine

While I dance I cannot judge. I cannot hate, I cannot seperate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance.

-Hans Bos

It is kind of fun to do the impossible.

-Walt Disney

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