Quotes About Liveliness

#1. Half the time, in this life, you wouldn't know where you are nor when. There are moments of unpleasant liveliness. Tamp that the fuck down is best.

Kevin Barry

#2. First, it must be realized that liveliness in the preacher does not mean liveliness in the congregation. On the contrary, the extreme liveliness in the preacher is produced by dullness in the congregation ... It is when the congregation is dull that it wants to be amused.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. Liveliness in a teacher does not mean that students will be lively.

Sam Pickering

#4. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"
"For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

Jane Austen

#5. Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.

Konstantinos Karamanlis

#6. There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Henri Matisse

#7. Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. I am opposed to textbooks ... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.

Emil Artin

#9. From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there
in the liveliness of our innate growth energies, in the vitality of our stiffening-away muscles, in our looking eyes, our listening ears, our reaching-out hands.

Louise J. Kaplan

#10. My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of "Yah! Yah! Yah!" And death says, "All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep."

Mel Brooks

#11. The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

Robin Williams

#12. With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

Joseph Raffael

#13. How much of the audience's fun was sacrificed in the effort to redefine the social parameters of the concert hall - it sounds almost masochistic of the upper crust, curtailing their own liveliness, but I guess they had their priorities. Although the quietest

David Byrne

#14. A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

Sir Fulke Greville

#15. I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

Stevie Jackson

#16. I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

Julie Andrews

#17. His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently, his wife may teach him. I thought him very sly; - he hardly ever mentioned your name. But slyness seems the fashion.

Jane Austen

#18. A Servant of History
Her eyes were of the lightest blue as if time had rinsed away most of the colour, but there was a liveliness inside them.

Ron Rash

#19. The acid test is that all paranoids and fundamentalists lack a sense of humor, for humor is a chaos flux and flexibility, of ambiguity and multi-dimensionality, and that kind of erotic liveliness is precisely what the fundamentalist is trying to eliminate in holding rigidly to doctrine.

William Irwin Thompson

#20. What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.

Diane Ackerman

#21. I'll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

Frances Mayes

#22. This is where I liked to be when I was hangover or coming down off a cocaine binge, here in the dust with all these dusty people, all this liveliness and clutter and color, things for sale to cheer me up, and greasy food that would slip down by throat.

Anne Lamott

#23. Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life.

Gordon Gee

#24. I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#25. The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

Salman Rushdie

#26. Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.

S. Kelley Harrell

#27. Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation ... Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand
the words go deep.

Peter Elbow

#28. Perhaps nothing escapes this fate but the liveliness and nimbleness of the mind - the very qualities with which the novel is written, qualities that belong to a universe other than the one we live in.

Italo Calvino

#29. But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

John Bates Clark

#31. In understandably wishing to increase freedom and liberty, it paradoxically left massive road kill everywhere on the highway to rational heaven.

Ken Wilber

#32. If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

#33. Everything Syrio Forel had ever taught her vanished in a heartbeat. In that instant of sudden terror, the only lesson Arya could remember was the one Jon Snow had given her, the very first.
She stuck him with the pointy end, driving the blade upward with a wild, hysterical strength.

George R R Martin

#34. I don't do my work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

Jhonen Vasquez

#35. I can't believe George Bush might be president.

Bradley Whitford

#36. If you can listen to yourself and obey yourself more, then you have increased your chances for attaining personal effectiveness.

Archibald Marwizi

#37. When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#38. I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with them, forgive yourself. There may be hope for me yet.

Anthony Ervin

#39. Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Lord Acton

#40. As I looked at the stains on the coral, I recalled some of the eloquent phrases of politicians and newsmen about how "gallant" it is for a man to "shed his blood for his country," and "to give his life's blood as a sacrifice," and so on. The words seemed ridiculous. Only the flies benefited.

Eugene B. Sledge

#41. I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

G.K. Chesterton