Waltz Quotes

• My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Florida, Waiting, Kitchen

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.19, Knopf

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• The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

  Len Goodman

  Fall, Lucky, Truth Is

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• The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

  Andre Rieu

  Uplifting, Giving, Sides

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

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• Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

  Rocky Marciano

  Boxing, Guy, Rounds

  "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.

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• You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wall, Self, Doubt

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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• It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.

  Andre Rieu

  Art, Real, Play

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

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• And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dancing, Mazes, Giddy

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• Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and if they play a Quodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance, the hearers are so overjoyed that they don't know what to do with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese public.

  Frederic Chopin

  Song, Play, People

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• I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Halloween, Distance, Dark

  Song: All Souls Night

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• You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Men, Two, Vienna

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• My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

  Richard Roxburgh

  Honest, Difficult, Has Beens

  "The Van Helsing Interviews: Richard Roxburgh". Interview with Staci Layne Wilson, www.horror.com. May 2003.

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• After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

  David D. Burns

  Love, Mistake, Adventure

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• Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

  Larry David

  Army, People, Today

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

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• The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

  Andre Rieu

  Important, World, Way

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

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• The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes his life, his character, and his hopes. For some, it's a popular waltz; for others, a march.

  Patrick Modiano

  Character, Doctors, March

  Patrick Modiano (1971). “Night rounds”

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• He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crush, Christian, Spiritual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Real, Fire, Flesh

  Song: Jungleland, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

  Mark Twain

  Names, Differences, Polka

  Mark Twain (1957). “Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864”

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• I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

  Maurice Jarre

  Writing, Littles, Kind

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• My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Dream, Art, Horse

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• I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.

  Harry S. Truman

  Song, Stars, Giving

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

  Levon Helm

  Band, Thrill, Lasts

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• You just have to work with your discomfort. ... It’s challenging, but you have to dance the dance that the band’s playing. You can’t say: “I came here to Cha Cha and they’re playing a Waltz, godammit!”

  Jeff Bridges

  Challenges, Band, Discomfort

  "Exclusive: Oscar Nominee Jeff Bridges On Crazy Heart - The RT Interview". Interview with Rosamund Witcher, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. March 1, 2010.

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• I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Friendship, Balls

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• Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you suppose to be dead? Currently being chased by two Cabals? You're waltzing around Vancouver, eating in restaurants?" (Ash)"Hell no," Corey said. "I never waltz. I do the fox-trot sometimes though.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Two, Vancouver, Ashes

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