Dancing Bear Quotes

#1. When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Really, we're just a microcosm of the human condition. Whether we're here a day, a month, a year, fifty years - our time on this earth is finite." This time he turned to Brendan. "Life isn't a dress rehearsal, as they say. This is our chance to discover things we might have only dreamed of before.

Claire Thompson

#3. It's not over if you're still here," Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. Millions today want salvation, but on their own terms. They want to come their own way, and so we have hundreds of schemes and plans devised by men to regain paradise.

Billy Graham

#5. Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.

Maurice De Saxe

#6. Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court. (Jon to Alanna)

Tamora Pierce

#7. Vinnie had court business, and then he couldn't fit the dancing bear in his car, so Lula and I picked him up in Mooner's bus.

Janet Evanovich

#8. This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.

Dan Chaon

#9. Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle.
"You HAD to break," she scolded it.
The ankle did not reply.

Rick Riordan

#10. Bring on the dancing bear!

Neal Shusterman

#11. All that is missing is the dancing bear.

Sharon Kay Penman

#12. The examined life is no picnic.

Robert Fulghum

#13. You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here ... We grow our own troubles
it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.

Larry McMurtry

#14. Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.
Dancing Bear

James Crumley

#15. Beware of crossing your arms in the sterile attitude of the spectator, because life is not a spectacle, because a a sea of sorrows is not a proscenium, because a man who screams is not a dancing bear.

Aime Cesaire

#16. If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.

Lady Gaga

#17. WHILE MUSIC alone can unlock people with parkinsonism, and movement or exercise of any kind is also beneficial, an ideal combination of music and movement is provided by dance (and dancing with a partner, or in a social setting, brings to bear other therapeutic dimensions).

Oliver Sacks

#18. I like the cerebral process.

Charlaine Harris

#19. Every mummer needs a dancing bear.

George R R Martin

#20. We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

John F. Kennedy

#21. When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

Nancy Isenberg

#22. You didn't walk away, Judd. You made me see the light when I was suffocating in the dark.

Bijou Hunter

#23. His lap looked like it was already occupied
by a giant boner. It pressed against his pants like a circus tent pole. Elephants could fit under there. A lion tamer and some flying trapeze artists. A dancing bear, or five.

Juniper Bell

#24. Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.
The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#25. Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.

Dhani Harrison

#26. And I must borrow every changing shape
To find expression ... dance, dance
Like a dancing bear,
Cry like a parrot, chatter like an ape.
Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance

T. S. Eliot

#27. I think it would be worse to get mauled by a dancing bear than just a regular bear because you can't totally blame the dancing bear.

Demetri Martin

#28. Well dress me up in a tutu, put my on a unicycle, and call me Caroline the Dancing Bear. You're a fugging dumper

John Green

#29. Ut who will guard the guardians?

Juvenal

#30. He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear;

Neil Gaiman

#31. We're so undefined, so fleeting and fragile and new, but I don't think he could belong to anyone else, and I couldn't belong to anyone else but him.

Karina Halle

#32. 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

#33. A miniature dancing bear that had to go potty. Scooping him up, Grace ran for the front door, getting him outside just in time for him to race to the closest tree and lift a stumpy leg. Toby, still in his Star War's pj's, trotted across the yard to join him in anointing the tree.

Jill Shalvis

#34. A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

Aime Cesaire