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Quotes About Spontaneous

Because I'm a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there's a saucer of milk to spill, I'd rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I'll bat it between my paws, and unravel it. Because it's fun. Because it's what cats do best.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort.
~ Gina Greenlee
Child... curly, dimpled lunatic.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
~ Mark Twain
What the times demand, and in an unprecedented fashion, is that one be—not seem—outrageous, independent, anarchical. That one be thoroughly disciplined—as a means of being spontaneous. That one resist at whatever cost the fearful pressures placed on one to lie about one's own experience. For in the same way that the writer scarcely ever had a more uneasy time, he has never been needed more.
~ James Baldwin
I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.
~ Jennifer Egan
Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.
~ Henry Selick
Feelings come at really unexpected moments to all of us, and they come so fast.
~ Vittoria Ceretti
When I was growing up, there were a few musicians who would have regular gigs at restaurants, and I always thought it was so cool and unexpected how they would spontaneously perform. Being the ambitious kid that I was, I got into it and really studied it. I was so inspired by it.
~ Borns
I've learned some quick tricks about how to fix my hair so I can dash somewhere unexpected and still be O.K. when someone stops me to take a picture.
~ Mikaela Shiffrin
I've had a 'Zelig'-like career. I pop up unexpectedly. I'm always kind of around.
~ Dennis Christopher
Real woman should be capricious.
~ Christian Dior
I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.
~ Al Michaels
To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.
~ Roscoe Mitchell
They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I couldn't write a comedy skit for someone else.
~ Roy Clark
Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.
~ Mark Caine
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
~ Maria Montessori
My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I'm not a television anchor for a Hindi channel or a radio jockey. So I may not be able to have a spontaneous conversation in Hindi. I'm a Bollywood actress, and I can certainly speak my dialogue in Hindi.
~ Katrina Kaif
As an actor, I've been taught to just stay with your scene partner, and whatever they do, let it affect you, be spontaneous.
~ Alex Sharp
The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.
~ Steve Harvey
Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.
~ Chad Smith
I married her after knowing her eight days, and I was happy. That was my baby. At the same time, with us being so spontaneous, we did it backwards. Maybe she won't admit it, but I will. We should have got to know each other and then got married. The relationship kind of dissolved, but we're still going to be friends. I love her.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.