B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.”
“Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.”
“Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.”
“Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.”
“Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.”
“Ballet is only good when it is great.”
Source: Afterimages
“Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It requires discipline, taking care of yourself, taking care of your own body first. Then it allows you to give of that beauty, the beauty that you acquire by sculpting your own body all your life.”
“Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.”
“Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.”
“Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.”
“Ballet is the best example of art that can fly itself and at the same time make those who watch it fly with admiration!”
“Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Ballet is the fairies' baseball.”
“Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.”
“Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.”
Source: Ballet Beyond Tradition
“Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.”
“Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.”
“Ballet shoes... I cannot play with them like they're toys.
But when the music is playing they get deep on my toes.”
Source: The DAO (Dancing As One) Workbook Illustrated
“Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.”
“Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible”
“Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.”
“Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.”
“Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.”
Source: Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album
“Ballet.something pure in this crazy world”
“Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.”
“Ballin's not a hobby, it's my occupation”
“Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.”
Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910
“Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.”
“Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.”
“Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead or will manipulate, character must come to prove it.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.”
Source: Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress
“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings
“Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform.”
Source: Nice Guys Finish Last
“Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.”
“Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.”
“Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.”
“Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.”
“Ballroom dancing was inherently social, but steps replaced words and beats ironed out pauses. The shy, the awkward, and the weird found a home where good rhythm or a barn of a memory vanquished their shyness, awkwardness, and weirdness. Some got good while others stayed middling. Everyone, though, had fun.”
Source: The Winner: A Ballroom Dance Novel
“Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.”
“Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.”
“BALLROOMS OF MARS"
"You gonna look fine
Be primed for dancing
You're gonna trip and glide
All on the trembling plane
Your diamond hands
Will be stacked with roses
And wind and cars
And people of the past
I'll call you thing
Just when the moon sings
And place your face in stone
Upon the hill of stars
And gripped in the arms
Of the changeless madman
We'll dance our lives away
In the Ballrooms of Mars
You talk about day
I'm talking 'bout night time
When the monsters call out
The names of men
Bob Dylan knows
And I bet Alan Freed did
There are things in night
That are better not to behold
You dance
With your lizard leather boots on
And pull the strings
That change the faces of men
You diamond browed hag
You're a gutter-gaunt gangster
John Lennon knows your name
And I've seen his”
Source: The Slider Song Album
“balls”
“Balls are to men what purses are to women.”
“Balls in general are not a good looking item.”
“Balls is good, dude. Balls is just - it's straight up. You know what you're getting with balls. Death is what you're getting.”
“Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.”
“Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.”
Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be
“Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun.”
“Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?”
“Balochistan, and to some extent Sindh too, has a general feeling that they are not part of the decision-making process in Pakistan and are ruled by a Punjabi dictatorship. There is a lot of exploitation of the rich resources [in Balochistan] which the locals are not gaining from. As long as this goes on, it is going to keep providing grounds for serious uprisings and insurgencies.”