"A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress."

“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.”

“I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you...I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman."”

“Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.”

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

“There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.”

“I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.”

“It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.”

“I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...”

“It finally happened, he thought as he burrowed under his shirt and took hold of his heavy cross. All his life he’d wondered why he’d never fallen in love, and now he knew: He’d been waiting for this moment, this woman, this time. The female is mine, he thought. - Manny”