Jauntily Quotes

#1. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose white scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze;

Donna Tartt

#2. If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

Clare Boothe Luce

#3. Have you noticed her name?"
Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom. "The WITCH! How did you dare? Does Hannah know?"
"Oh, she's not named after Hannah. I hadn't gone ten miles down the river that day before I knew I'd left the real witch behind.

Elizabeth George Speare

#4. WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

Anita Shreve

#5. Mr Tumnus does look as camp as fuck with his little scarf tied jauntily around his neck. I suppose it isn't outside the realms of possibility that he'd just been off cottaging with some centaurs in the forest.

Sarah Lotz

#6. He walked jauntily away, being hungry, and the unfortunate Matthew was left to do that which was harder for him than bearding a lion in its den - walk up to a girl - a strange girl - an orphan girl - and demand of her why she wasn't a boy.

L.M. Montgomery

#7. He is looking down into the toilet bowl. He sees a bright shiny red ball, about the size of his fist, covered with blood and bobbing jauntily in the yellowed water. It throbs in time
with Ernest's pulse. It is his heart.

J. Mulrooney

#8. Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy or Gatsby anymore, but of this clean, hard, limited person, who dealt in universal skepticism, and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.

Chris Rock

#10. No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.

Fran Lebowitz

#11. The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

Ric Ocasek

#12. She was acting like a little excited kid ... like she could still get really excited about something in public without trying to hide it.

Matthew Quick

#13. We expand what we focus on.

Wayne Dyer