Top 30 Blue Balliett Quotes
#1. In the summer, it's short greens and tall greens and sometimes a smudge of other colors. In winter, it's squinty white,and sometimes deep when it looks flat. In early spring and late fall, the town gets brown and black, like an old photograph.
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#3. People get distracted by worries and sadness, and have to struggle to see anything else. They have to work hard to hold on to beauty, to hold fast to dreams and words
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#4. Crash, from the Russian krashenina Noun: a rough fabric sometimes used to strengthen the spine of a book
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#5. My grandpa and grandma aren't like me. They're more like sheets drying outside on a breezy day
they change directions without any fuss. But me, if I was a sheet and the wind blew me, I'd never stop flapping.
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#6. I don't know how anyone else sees the world and no one else sees the world exactly how I see the world! We each see in our own, unique way.
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#9. I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.
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#10. you can pick what you want from the definition, like picking flowers from a garden
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#11. Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.
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#12. Rhythms appear in the ways flowers grow, water flows, the earth moves around the sun, the moon moves through their dreams, and thoughts travel within their minds.
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#13. Grams calls them "worry crumbs" those leftover bits of an uncomfortable idea. She fixes worry crumbs with sayings and she has one to fit almost any size mess or confusion.
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#14. Well?" the man shouted. "With or against?" No one replied, and
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#15. The smallest detail may be the one that matters the most
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#16. Now Early realized that a light had gone out, and
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#18. Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?
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#19. Language was a code, like numbers, he said, and depended just as much on rhythm for its power
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#20. She wouldn't be helpless, not ever, not if she could see a way out. She wouldn't allow that to happen. She could see that being helpless in a situation like this was dangerously close to becoming just plain less
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#21. You could pick out what felt surprising in a book or poem and then save it, as long as you also wrote down the name of the person who wrote it first
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#22. Reading is a tool no one can take away. A million bad things may happen in life and it'll still be with you, like a flashlight that never needs a battary. Reading can offer a crack of light on the blackest of nights.
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#23. Perhaps Calder's secret lies in the idea that each mobile is, truly, a metaphor for the experience of living, for the interconnected movement of separate elements that make up a life. Each mobile tells us to stop, to wonder, to wonder some more, and to celebrate.
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#25. The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth.
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#26. Inside this building, the world had felt generous, limitless, like a safe spot for dreams to grow.
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#27. Yes, the wind came up
" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused.
"And changed us all," Petra said softly.
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#28. What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?
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#29. Dig down, fly high, remember where you want to go, and one day you'll get there: Roots + Wings + Dreams=Home!
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