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Quotes About Spontaneity

Anyone can be James Dean for a day.
~ Michael Bastian
Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.
~ Chris Barber
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
~ Jan Garbarek
What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.
~ John Lurie
We were wearing jeans and t-shirts, and we just decided to drive to the courthouse and get married. We went to Arby's and had lunch - that's always been like one of my favorite places - so we decided to celebrate our holy matrimony with some roast beef.
~ Samantha Ponder
That's what you do if you're from Jersey. You make a big decision at a diner at 3 in the morning.
~ Ramy Youssef
John Hughes loved improvisers.
~ Edie McClurg
I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.
~ Tyler Posey
I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.
~ Bruce Forsyth
When I tell a joke, I don't think about who's listening to it. I tell the jokes I think are funny.
~ Lee Mack
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
~ Francis Bacon
Our most successful bubbles, our only successful ones are doubtless those that are the least worked. For can one work on a bubble? Surely not, - unless (carefully) with the very breath that gives it birth. It is only necessary to blow it with an even enough breath, with just the right pretentiousness, a movement of the soul at once measured and persistent, yet not too much so - until it detaches itself quasi-spontaneously from the pipe.
~ Francis Ponge
Follamos o fornicamos? - Lo que sea, Pepe, pero pronto, que tengo hora en la peluqueria.
~ Francisco Umbral
Always be careful, my boy, what you make up. Life's more full of things made up on the Spur of the Moment than most people realize. Beware of the Spur of the Moment. It may turn and rend you.
~ Frank Baker
You just go on your nerve.
~ Frank O'Hara
He neither knew where he was, nor whither he was going, he could have no plan because he could foresee nothing, everything happening was inevitable and unexpected, he was an act in a whole chain of acts; and, though his movements had to conform to those of others, spontaneously, as part of some infinitely flexible plan, which he could not comprehend very clearly even in regard to its immediate object, he could rely on no one but himself.
~ Frederic Manning
Each day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules. He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Still, a fling couldn't hurt, right?" Veil said. She nodded her chin toward one of the passing barmaids, a tall young woman with unusually light hair. "What about Hem over there? She's tall." "Great. Tall," Kaladin said. "Because we both measure roughly the same in inches, we're sure to get along. Think of all the tall-person topics of conversation we could engage in. Like Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Hmm…
~ Brandon Sanderson
There isn't much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.
~ Brandon Sanderson
One of the creators of the show got my number from one of our friends that worked at Cartoon Network here in Atlanta, so the guy called me on Friday evening and said they'd love for us to do a song but they wanted to record it on Monday morning. So we just dropped everything and did it, and I got to sing like King Diamond. It was super fun.
~ Brann Dailor
To me, this quality of being who you are regardless of who you are with seems to be the very essence of authenticity—the result of being natural, sincere, spontaneous, open and genuine.
~ Brene Brown