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Quotes About Waltzing

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession
~ Henry Adams
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.
~ Katherine Dunn
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you suppose to be dead? Currently being chased by two Cabals? You're waltzing around Vancouver, eating in restaurants? (Ash) Hell no, Corey said. I never waltz. I do the fox-trot sometimes though.
~ Kelley Armstrong
If you're not too busy this evening, why don't you bring your soft shoes and your pads over to officers' row and we'll go waltzing Matilda? Say about eight o'clock." "Yes, sir." "That's not an order, that's an invitation. If you really are slowing down
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,Under the shade of a coolibah tree,And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil,"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"
~ Andrew Barton Paterson
I had been right the first time. His sonorous voice echoed through a hollow place of sorrow, catching its reverberations from those ragged walls. His gaiety masked a deep well of loneliness; he was a bright outward shape wrapped around shadows. It frightened me to see this so clearly, as if I suddenly found I was waltzing with a ghost through the multicolored fantasy of a dream. All my love rushed back for him, complicated and partisan.
~ Sharon Shinn
She was waltzing in a man's arms and smiling at him and enjoying every moment and dreaming of him as he had once been—and of herself as she had once been. She was being seduced and she was allowing it to happen just as if she had no will of her own, no character or principles of her own. Just as if she were that same naive, heedless girl and he was that same flawed golden boy.
~ Mary Balogh
I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
~ Bruce Greenwood
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
~ Leslie Caron
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.
~ Katherine Dunn
Were they waltzing, at that fleeting moment which the camera seized and tossed on into the future? Her feet seem scarcely to touch the dance floor.
~ Iris Murdoch
Wasted and wounded It ain't what the moon did I got what I paid for now See you tomorrow Hey Frank can I borrow A couple of bucks from you To go Waltzing Matilda Waltzing Matilda You'll go waltzing Matilda with me . . .
~ Tim Winton
The bear, I decided, had got to become mine. The dogs and my other animals would soon get used to it and together we could go waltzing over the hillsides.
~ Gerald Durrell
The whiskey on your breathCould make a small boy dizzy;But I hung on like death:Such waltzing was not easy.
~ Theodore Roethke
In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Returning home on the evening of his engagement he had bewildered Mrs. Tims by seizing her as she stood in front of the kitchen-stove, a frying-pan full of sausages in her hand, and waltzing her round the kitchen, frying-pan and all. Subsequently five of the six sausages had been recovered; but the sixth was not retrieved until the next morning when, in dusting, Mrs. Tims discovered it on the mantelpiece.
~ Unknown