Ballet Shoes Quotes:

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

- Constanze Mozart

topic: Dream, Art, Communication, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

- Patrick Swayze

topic: Growing Up, Kids, Redneck, Funny Redneck, Ballet Shoes

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

- Marie Windsor

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Shoes, Ballet, Boots, Tango, Ballet Shoes

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Dance, Heart, Shoes, Last Dance, Motivational Dance

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

- Sylvie Guillem

topic: Dance, Perfection, Soul, Pointe, Pointe Dancers

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.

- Christian Louboutin

topic: Shoes, Feet, Dancer, Ballet Shoes

The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.

- Pixie Lott

topic: School, Shoes, Ballet, Pointe, Ballet Shoes

And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

- Alice Sebold

topic: Girl, Flower, Happy Life, Lovely Bones, Bracelet

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

- Jennifer Ellison

source: "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.

topic: Dad, Years, Shoes, Ballet Shoes