“great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.”

Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.

This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.

I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.

Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.

Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

Destiny is made known silently.

What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.

In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

The sun was a pewter coin in a leaden sky.

But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.

The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence.

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.