The best Quotes by Margot Fonteyn

The best Quotes by Margot Fonteyn

Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias (née Hookham; 18 May 1919 - 21 February 1991), known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

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Traveling Wanderlust

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Since when was genius found respectable?

Elizabeth Browning

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The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

Alexandre Dumas

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Genius Foolishness

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

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Genius Problems Intelligence

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

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Genius Foolishness

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Bernard Williams

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

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Children & Childhood Genius Motivation

The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

Denahi in Brother Bear

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Spring Change Magic

Magic blooms only in rare souls.

Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts - 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald

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Where there is kindness, there is goodness and where there is goodness there is magic.

Cinderella in Cinderella

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Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Joanne K. Rowling

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Imagination Magic

Your ancestors called it magic and you call it science. Well, I come from a place where they're one in the same thing.

Thor Odinson in Thor

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Magic is very alluring. Without you she may lose herself to it.

Pabbie in Frozen

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Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Driss in Intouchables

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

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Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

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Art Truth Politicians

Art is a way of survival.

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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

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Children & Childhood Art

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

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A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

Andy Warhol

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Art Photography Pictures

Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.

Alex Trebek

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Seriousness Craziness & Weirdness

In other words, you don't want to be serious
It takes two to be serious.

Edward Estlin Cummings

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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Molly Ivins

Humor & Comedy Seriousness

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Seriousness Craziness & Weirdness

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying "I would stay and love you, but I have to go".

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The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.

Aurelius Augustinus

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Books Traveling World

Because sometimes, even when you know how something's gonna end, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 2 Episode 14

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He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Francis Bacon

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Traveling Languages

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

Rory Freedman

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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Traveling Wanderlust

I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.

John Green in Paper Towns

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I'm in love with cities I have never been to and with people I have never met.

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Home can only be discovered abroad.

Siegfried Lenz

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Home Wanderlust

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.

Miriam Adeney (Author, Associate Professor of World Christian Studies)

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Traveling Home Wanderlust

Get out and open your eyes, this small world is filled with things to see.

Dusan Mirkovic in Downsizing

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Motivation Wanderlust

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

Angelina Jolie

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Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.

Michael Palin

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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