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Quotes About Spontaneity

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
~ Louis de Bernieres
She laughed. It was quick but it took over her face like a sneeze.
~ Unknown
If you have a simply swell story in mind, you can forget the rules. A swell story takes care of itself.
~ Louise Dickinson Rich
Sometimes you just have to do something stupid.
~ Louise Penny
Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!' 'I don't know, a bowl?' 'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!
~ Louise Rennison
Here is my recipe for a mood enhancer. Take a friend, preferably one with a really annoying fringe and outsize pants, and when she is rambling on swiftly, push her into a ditch and run away.
~ Louise Rennison
There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?" I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.
~ Louise Rennison
I always try to leave room for improvisation and responsive musicianship. That's what makes the music feel alive every night and makes playing fun every time. You're not just doing the same thing you performed the night before, even if it's the same song.
~ Unknown
Anything that makes the show unique is something I enjoy. If people blow their horns from their boats at Humphreys, or someone yells out something, that says to the audience: 'This is only happening right now. This is only happening tonight.' That's a good thing, no matter what it is.
~ Unknown
Production is "anarchistic.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Life happens when you least expect it, but that doesn't mean you can't have a blueprint in your back pocket.
~ Jodi Picoult
I was in the mood to make out in the back row of the movie theater with someone who did not know my first name. I wanted three guys to fight for the honor of buying me a drink
~ Jodi Picoult
a story will tell itself, when it's ready.
~ Jodi Picoult
charm and attraction, and it is the core of their innocence. Children live in the now and are oriented to pleasure. They accept life's "queer conundrums
~ John Bradshaw
The poisonous pedagogy justifies highly abusive methods for suppressing children's vital spontaneity: physical beatings, lying, duplicity, manipulation, scare tactics, withdrawal of love, isolation and coercion to the point of torture. All of these methods are toxically shaming.
~ John Bradshaw
Just as the shame-based parents cannot accept their own weaknesses, wants, feelings, vulnerability and dependency needs, they cannot accept their children's neediness, feelings, weakness, vulnerability and dependency. Firestone writes that the voice is the result of the "parents' deeply repressed desire to destroy the aliveness and spontaneity of the child whenever he or she intrudes on their defenses.
~ John Bradshaw
You stand on the sidelines of life wishing you were a participant. You don't know how to initiate a relationship, a conversation, an activity. You are withdrawn and would rather bear the pangs of being alone than risk interaction. You are not spontaneous. You allow yourself very little excitement or fun.
~ John Bradshaw
If you obey all the rules… you will miss all the fun.
~ John C. Maxwell
Sometimes you just need to stop over-thinking things,and just follow your heart.
~ Unknown
A true friend will play ninja with you in the middle of Walmart and think it's normal.
~ Unknown
I don't mind being silly and looking stupid in public with my friends.
~ Unknown
When something exciting happens I randomly slap the person next to me.
~ Unknown
For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.
~ Jim Carrey
Its cute when you kiss me unexpectedly & sneak around from behind to give me a hug.
~ Unknown