Minuet 2 Quotes

#1. I feel like I'm seeing a sparrow in a cage, something young and innocent trapped by grasping hands.
And I think that perhaps my own cage is simply larger than hers, so large I have never been fully aware of its edges.

Amy Ewing

#2. It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.

Arlen Specter

#3. The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

Maya Angelou

#4. The personal is political, but only to a point.

Susan Estrich

#5. Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#6. The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

Bill Veeck

#8. The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

William Manchester

#9. You can't kill a minuet de la coeur. You may shut up the music book ... but surely the minuet
the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars, even as our minuet of the Hessian bathing places must be stepping itself still.

Ford Madox Ford

#10. Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.

Chris Hemsworth

#11. Our tongues danced - not a waltz or a minuet, but a war dance, a death dance of bone drums and screaming fiddles.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. This clockwork twin of mine halted before me, her bowels churning out a settecento minuet, and offered me the bold carnation of her smile. Click, click
she raises her arm and busily dusts my cheeks with pink, powdered chalk that makes me cough; then thrusts towards me her little mirror.

Angela Carter

#13. It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the O'Reilly who owns this hotel?" then it was written by Haydn; if it can't then it wasn't.

Gervase Hughes

#14. No, by God, it is false! It wasn't a minuet that we stepped; it was a prison - a prison full of screaming hysterics, tied down so that they might not outsound the rolling of our carriage wheels as we went along the shaded avenues of the Taunus Wald.

Ford Madox Ford

#15. Here is a relationship booster
that is guaranteed to
work:
Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid
make your eyes light up as if you
just heard something
brilliant.

Rumi

#16. I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived..

Margaret Atwood

#17. I can't help but think that, comic book-wise, this whole episode would probably fill nothing but a couple interlude frames; like that moment where a character has a sepia-tinted dream before crashing back into their real story.

Melissa Keil

#18. But I have always suspected that one could substitute the Minuet of Haydn's 98th symphony for the Minuet in Haydn's 99th symphony without sensing a serious lack of coherence in either work.

Aaron Copland

#19. She was furious that I had seen her true form, horrified and embarrassed that I had stripped her disguise away and seen the creature beneath. And she was afraid that I could take away even her mask, forever, with my power.

Jim Butcher

#20. Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

Vivienne Westwood

#21. If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

Mickey Spillane

#22. The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

Judith Martin

#23. I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#24. Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

Bob Hope

#25. Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?

Sara Gruen