"I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face."

-- Ansel Elgort

#Ballet Quotes #Faces Quotes #Performing Quotes

“...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy..”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott, Thomas Banchoff, Seth Caplan, Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson (2009). “Flatland: The Movie Edition”, p.80, Princeton University Press
“There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.”
“I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.”
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go...”
“They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.”
“Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 20, 2012
“[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.”
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”

You may also like:

Jai Courtney
Actor
John Green
Author
Maggie Q
Actress
Miles Teller
Film actor
Nat Wolff
Actor
Shailene Woodley
Actress
Theo James
Actor
Veronica Roth
Novelist
Zoe Kravitz
Actress