August Bournonville Quotes

The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

August Bournonville

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• It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Success
  • Going

• People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Live
  • Place

• It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Education
  • Duty

• I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Good
  • Man
  • Control

• I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Why
  • Example

• When I was happily married and found myself pregnant, I just thought that this would be just the next, normal chapter. I was absolutely thrilled. So what a surprise it was when it turned out to be the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Meditation
  • Abuse

• The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Done
  • Wisdom
  • Transformation

• Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Science

• I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • World
  • Country
  • Hope

• I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Wish

• I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.

  

  Dawn Steel

• I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out 'Depeche Mode.'

  

  Brian Posehn

• I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Help
  • Hope

• I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Character

• 'The State Within' demands a certain intelligence from its audience. It doesn't just wash over you - it asks for commitment. And that's a really good thing.

  

  Lennie James
  • Good
  • Commitment

• Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Dream

• You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Trying
  • Winning
  • Tough

• I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Being
  • Read
  • Antidote

• I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.

  

  Summer Glau
  • Time
  • Dance
  • Week

• The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

  

  August Bournonville
  • Joy
  • Dance
  • Feelings