Rave Quotes

• And I say to my heart: rave on.

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Heart, Enthusiasm

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

  Phyllis Diller

  Anger, Frustration, Kitchen

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• People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.

  Wyclef Jean

  Self, Expression, People

  "We Played Two Truths And A Lie With Wyclef Jean And The Knocks". Interview with Ezra Marcus, livenation.vice.com. January 22, 2016.

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• Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Tattoo, Good Night, Goodnight

  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

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• People want to feel united, they want to have that religious sense they want to feel like at a rave 10,000 people at the rave are feeling the same emotions, a very primal need that's not being fulfilled in the world today.

  Robert Greene

  Religious, People, Feelings

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered states of consciousness. The rhythm of the music was precisely 120 beats per minute, the frequency of the fetal heart rate, and the same beat believed to be used by South American shamans to bring their tribes into a trance state. Through dancing together, without prescribed movements, or even partners, rave dancers sought to reach group consciousness on a level they had never experienced before.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Heart, Dancing, Dancer

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• You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly.

  Mark Jackson

  Butterfly, Caterpillars

  "Shocking! Former Warriors Coach Mark Jackson Chooses James Harden Over Steph Curry For MVP" by Jack Winter, uproxx.com. April 2, 2015.

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• The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

  Matisyahu

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Hip Hop

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• All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.

  Mae West

  Want

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• I rant and rave about noise pollution.

  Robert Carlyle

  Noise, Pollution, Rant

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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• At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black African-violet-dark butterfly and I a white moth. We were two wild ponies, Dawn and Midnight, the wind electrifying our manes and our hooves quaking the city; we were photo negatives of each other, together making the perfect image of a girl.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Girl, Butterfly, Dark

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• Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

  Emily Dickinson

  Agony, Despair, Safe

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1522, Delphi Classics

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• You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Flower, Islamic

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• The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Movie, Actors, Boots

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

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• Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

  Mojo Nixon

  Monsters, Sound, Disco

  Interview with Jeff Stratton, www.avclub.com. August 25, 1999.

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• August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

  George Monbiot

  Bad Day, August, Mad

  "The day the world went mad" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

  Erica Jong

  Forgotten, Vicious, Reviews

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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• Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.

  Bryan Procter

  Pain, Pride, Giving

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• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

  Irvine Welsh

  Party, Stories, Literature

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• I have a lot to say about Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton that has not been said by others recently and that I think needs to be said. I mean I've known her for 40 years. I worked with her, I know her well professionally. I know her well personally. I know her to be a person of high moral character. A reliable person and an honest person, however Mr. [Donald] Trump may rant and rave to the contrary. So I'm happy to say that. People can make their own choices.

  William Weld

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that.

  Richard Masur

  New York, Team, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was about 17 or 18 and there were a lot of clubs and dancing. It was the beginning of rave culture and a lot of ecstasy. Because of all the drugs, there are certain songs that make me feel high.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Dancing, Drug

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 02, 2016.

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• Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

  Durwood Merrill

  Sports, Baseball, Fields

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• I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.

  Jessica Chastain

  School, Cutting, Parks

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

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• It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.48

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