George Balanchine Quotes

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

George Balanchine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: January 9, 1904 - April 30, 1983

Topics

DanceImpossibleStoryComplicated

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim Bishop

FuturePowerTimeFlyStandRetreat

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

John Cameron Mitchell

FutureWeirdKnowHappenGoing

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

MyselfDriveWoodsPlayMakeCame

I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.

Jeff Buckley

HomeBeachRideCollegeBackJazz

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

John Templeton

GodQuestionEveryoneAnythingUs

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

Skeet Ulrich

LifeEyesMomentLookActorWay

Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'

Tony Campolo

FamilyValuesPartySayRepublican

There's been nobody who stays in more communication and listens to veterans more than I do.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

CommunicationNobodyVeteransMore

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

Robert Winston

AnimalYouNowAnimalsHumanGenes

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Roy L. Smith

ChildrenParentingBetterForgetApt

I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing.

Mitski

ThinkBadBleakThingBad Thing

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

Jonah Hill

CulturePeopleMeBookThinkYou

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