Dancing Quotes - Page 31

• Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

  Alice Walker

  Hard Times, Proof, Furious

  Alice Walker (2013). “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems”, p.16, New World Library

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• ‎"Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes to the Dominions and return us to ourselves. Everything that isn't us is also ourselves. We're joined to everything that was, is and will be. From one end of the Imajica to another. From the tiniest mote dancing over this flame to the Godhead Itself.

  Clive Barker

  Eye, Flames, Magic

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Dec 03, 2012

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• It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Taken, Down And, Tiny

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2897, Delphi Classics

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• We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

  Henry Miller

  Stars, Flesh, Hollow

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, “So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?” Clary thought of the male faerie‘s torn-open ribs and shuddered. “Nothing that pleasant.

  Cassandra Clare

  Missing, Males, Ribs

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• There is no way I’m going out in public like this!” It seemed while I was being tormented at the salon, Bones had been out shopping. I didn’t ask where he got the money from, images of old folks with their necks bleeding and their wallets missing dancing in my head. There were boots, earrings, push-up bras, skirts, and something he swore to me were dresses but only looked like pieces of dresses.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Shopping, Missing, Skirts

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• By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn’t working. ~pg. 317~

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Pain, Lying

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• And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.

  Edgar Degas

  Heart, Shoes, Dancer

  Nathalia Brodskaya, Edgar Degas (2012). “Edgar Degas”, p.125, Parkstone International

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• There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, "Go.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Girl, Bye, Broken

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

  Alice Walker

  Determination, Prayer, Kindness

  Alice Walker (2013). “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems”, p.96, New World Library

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• Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Goats, Want, Cry

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.162, Vintage

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• He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Followers, Great Leader

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• There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape, this music. I was sort of dancing with my eyes closed and you saw me.' '...yes, I remember that occasion. I still think about it from time to time.' 'That's funny, so do I.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Eye, Thinking, Tape

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• Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep their hearts clean of anything but kisses and theater and dancing. They must never read Pushkin; they must never say clever things; they must never have sly eyes or wear their hair loose and wander around barefoot, or they will draw his attention!

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Clever, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.41, Macmillan

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• Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Moon, Shoes

  Stephen King (2016). “The Long Walk”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Honesty, Liars, Mean

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, Chapter 26, "Lanre Turned" (p. 203), 2007.

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• Elene gasped and sat up. "Kylar Thaddeus Stern!" Kylar giggled. "Thaddeus? That's a good one. I knew a Thaddeus once." "So did I. He was a blind idiot." "Really?" Kylar said, his eyes dancing. "The one I knew was famous for his gigantic-" "Kylar!" Elene interrupted, motioning toward Uly. "His gigantic what?" Uly asked. "Now you did it." Elene said, "His gigantic what, Kyler?" "Feet. And you know what they say about big feet." He winked lasciviously at Elene. "What?" Uly asked. "Big Shoes," Kylar said.

  Brent Weeks

  Eye, Shoes, Feet

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• To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Dance, Mean

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• I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour

  Michael Jackson

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Book, Heart, Wine

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• Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Shadow, Fancy, Cages

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.350, Jazzybee Verlag

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• One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Tables, Next, Sides

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Blue Bloods: Number 1 in series”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Night, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Children, Father

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2238, Bantam

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• He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Sleep, Judging, Dies

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.349, Vintage

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