Dancing Quotes - Page 33

• When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.

  Anne Lamott

  Absurdity Of Life, Laughing, Buoyancy

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.237, Anchor

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• Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.

  Aime Cesaire

  Attitude, Grief, Men

  "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land". Book by Aime Cesaire, 1939.

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• The last time I had PMS a roast chicken popped out of the oven and danced the Macarena.Krebs had walked in just as the chicken started dancing. By then he was pretty much used to anything and only asked if the chicken shouldn’t be doing the Chicken Dance instead.

  Linda Wisdom

  Pms, Lasts, Ovens

  Linda Wisdom (2008). “50 Ways to Hex Your Lover”, p.118, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

  Sarah Kane

  Chickens, Stills

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• A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Real, Love Is, Flames

  Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dancer, Asks

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.155, Random House

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• Look, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking I said no because the whole thing would just be too Dirty Dancing , right? Summer fling at the resort, only with the roles reversed: you know, the poor working girl and the rich doctor's son, nobody puts Baby in the corner, blah blah blah. That kind of thing.

  Meg Cabot

  Summer, Girl, Baby

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Self, Opposites, Together

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.75, John Wiley & Sons

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• But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pride, Fishing, Titles

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• I'm Magnus Bane." he went on in a soothing tone, stretching out his ringed hands. Blue sparks had begun to dance between them like bioluminescence dancing water. "I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was comming?" "I know who you are, but..." Maia looked dazed. "You look so... so... shiny.

  Cassandra Clare

  Blue, Hands, Water

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• Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?

  Langston Hughes

  Song, Pain, Laughter

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.63, University of Missouri Press

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• You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

  Daniel Handler

  Princess, Jealous, Fairy

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• I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

  China Mieville

  Cutting, Mad, Spiders

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• Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

  Stephen King

  Home, Moon Rise

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

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• This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.

  Justin Torres

  Beer, Men, Cities

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• Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi teacher told us to breath the air, transforming it into energy, motion. Dancing is the body's song, and Bess sang.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Song, Teacher, Air

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Fatigue Artist”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the great male fantasy-all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know-this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.

  Rachel Cohn

  Girl, Song, Princess

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.121, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Kissing, Soul

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.

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• We did just leave an insane asylum,” Hi agreed. “For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada.

  Kathy Reichs

  Night, Insane, Naked

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• Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Men, Singing, Dying

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.87, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Planet Earth, gentle and blue With all my heart, I love you. Dancing the Dream by Michael Jackson

  Michael Jackson

  Dream, Love You, Heart

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• No, they would not be happy to take my place at your side, cara mia, because I would promptly end their lives in a most unhappy way.’ ‘You are such a caveman, Julian. You look tall and elegant and princely, yet you have not matured beyond the cave.’ …’I have no intention of riding above caveman mentality,’ he growled in her ear, his breath teasing tendrils of hair and sending little flames dancing through her bloodstream. ‘There are so many benefits for the caveman.

  Christine Feehan

  Hair, Flames, Your Side

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• Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking in the rich smells as he snitched lemon cakes and blueberry tarts. His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Drinking, Book

  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.232, Bantam

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• Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer, though." Tod laughed out loud and I groaned. "Sophie takes ballet and jazz. She's not a pole dancer." "There's more money in pole dancing," Sabine insisted.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dancer, Ballet, Sophie

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.526, Harlequin

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• How long until you have to go...reap?" I whispered as my arms slid around his neck. Like we were dancing. Only we weren't moving, and there was no music. "Don't know. Don't care." "Won't you get in trouble if you miss something?" "See my previous answer.

  Rachel Vincent

  Moving, Long, Missing

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.545, Harlequin

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