Prancing Quotes

• Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wise, Intelligent, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Riding, Equestrian

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Reading, Land

  "There is no frigate like a book" l. 1 (ca. 1873)

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• I’m going to do a lot of weird stuff that’s not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it’s time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff.

  Andy Milonakis

  Thinking, Years, Insane

  "Kickin' it with Andy Milonakis". Interview with Bethonie Butler, ew.com. September 18, 2007.

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• I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

  Michael Bergin

  Queens, Two, Long

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• His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation.

  Edward Seaga

  Men, Voice, Style

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• The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Children, Men, Joy

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• I like rock and roll t-shirts, tight jeans, and sneakers or boots. Really just laid back, sort of rock and roll. I'm a sneaker person. I don't really like to wear high heels. I'm always really paranoid when I'm on stage playing guitar that I'm going to trip over one of the cords when I'm prancing around so I have on wedges or shoes that are not too high.

  Orianthi

  Rocks, High Heels, Guitar

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.

  Artie Shaw

  Country, Art, Jobs

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• When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.

  Robert Benchley

  Sports, Exercise, Thinking

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• A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

  Roger Zelazny

  Song, Book, Fire

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully!

  Lauren Myracle

  Live Your Life, Doe, Nipples

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• If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.

  Steve McFadden

  Kids, Ideas, Acting

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• Technically, the dance worked best when done naked, but I didn't feel like prancing in the nude into Morrigan Hound's arms. I'm sure he'd be thrilled to see me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Arms, Naked, Done

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.194, Penguin

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• You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Drug

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you’re already male to begin with poses no particular problem. But if you’re anyone else, your whole sexual identity gets dragged into the principal’s office: “So what’s this I hear about you prancing around, masquerading as a woman?” You are answerless. You are sitting on your hands. You are praying for your breasts to grow, your hair to perk up.

  Lorrie Moore

  Beautiful, Hair, Hands

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Sep 12, 2014

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• Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

  Grace Slick

  Purpose, Stage

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

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• The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

  Graham Joyce

  Air, Unicorn, Mist

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• Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, he earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas. She had to admit, the signs were not promising.

  Peter Lerangis

  Beach, Brother, Uncles

  Peter Lerangis (2011). “The 39 Clues #7: The Viper's Nest”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• This isn’t happening to you, princess,” Sabine snapped before I could do more than shake my head. “This is happening to us. While you spent the past few months prancing around in ignorant bliss, we were all being possessed, or kidnapped, or stalked by this hellion. So dry your tears and take off the tiara, because this is a call to arms, not a pity party. You’re not going to find any sympathy here.

  Rachel Vincent

  Party, Princess, Past

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.236, Harlequin

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