Quotes About Waltzes

#1. Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

E.B. White

#2. Somewhere, a rattlesnake strike makes the dance begin. Three hawks float in the light blue sky overhead. Crows caw and the sweet seduction of lavender fills my head. And she waltzes through my thoughts.

Hunter S. Jones

#3. Breathless waltzes have only ever led girls into trouble.

Sarah MacLean

#4. When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.

Andre Rieu

#5. I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Reba McEntire

#6. Here, waltzes are called works! And Strauss and Lanner, who play them for dancing, are called Kapellmeistern. This does not mean that everyone thinks like that; indeed, nearly everyone laughs about it; but only waltzes get printed.

Frederic Chopin

#7. What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

Antonio Carlos Jobim

#8. I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

Assata Shakur

#9. She waltzes into the apartment, her Chanel handbag swinging on her arm like a weapon. Rose frightens children, pets, and even grown males with her icy eyes and chilling glares.

Krista Ritchie

#10. The music gushed from the loudspeaker in a swirl of shadowed melody. Since Vienna died, all waltzes are shadowed. (I'll be waiting)

Raymond Chandler

#11. I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

Marian McPartland

#12. White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

Joni Mitchell

#13. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

Harry Houdini

#14. We will have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only a few short hours to win them.

Amy Carmichael

#15. I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.

Romain Duris

#16. Things were simpler then. And also very, very stupid.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Nothing matters.

Leonard Woolf

#18. I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.

Sefi Atta

#19. All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

Sheri S. Tepper

#20. The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The program was curtailed because Nicaragua could not make even reduced payments.

Stephen Kinzer