"It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight."

-- Jean-Georges Noverre

#Sight Quotes #Dancing Quotes #Ballet Quotes

“Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.”
“The liberal Gluten-free agenda is turning our dogs lesbian.”
“There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.”
“Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible.”
“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”
“You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars. And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”

Source : "A Universe From Nothing". Lawrence M. Krauss' speech at the Atheist Alliance International Convention at the Marriot Hotel Convention Center in Burbank, California, www.youtube.com. 2009.
“Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.”
“Grammar is politics by other means.”

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