Dansant Quotes & Sayings

The only good thing was that by midnight, even most of the bums had gone home to sleep it off. That was lucky for them, because Ray was the worst damn driver I'd ever seen. And that was after I jerked his head out of the duffel and parked it on the dashboard.
"Gah! That makes it worse!" he told me, as I tried to get the eyes facing forward.
"How can it possibly be worse?"
"Because I got double vision now! Get it off! Get it off!"
He batted at his own head and succeeded in sending it tumbling into Christine's lap. She immediately went into hysterics and slapped it away. The head fell out of the car; Ray hit the brakes and we came to a screeching halt.
"What are you doing?" I screeched, as he hopped out. "There are people firing at us!"
"Tough!" came from somewhere under the car. — Karen Chance

I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the cunningly detailed shackles of decadent passion. I am every lonely railway station in every capital of Europe. I am the Street, the fanciless buildings of government. the cafe-dansant, the clockwork figure, the jazz saxophone, the tourist-lady's hairpiece, the fairy's rubber breasts, the travelling clock which always tells the wrong time and chimes in different keys. I am the dead palm tree, the Negro's dancing pumps, the dried fountain after tourist season. I am all the appurtenances of night. — Thomas Pynchon

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created. — Jennifer Esposito

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well. — Stevie Jackson

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer. — David Lloyd George

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect. — Richard P. Feynman

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. — Ivan Turgenev

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody. — Reese Witherspoon

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children. — Shirley Maclaine

There is no love of life without despair of life. — Albert Camus

this in medical school from the very first day. If I violate the URC, my license will be revoked — Richard Fox

Lots of folks have a hard life. It's an excuse for failure, not a reason. Life is what you make of it." These — Roger W. Buenger

When we say I won't take this anymore, that's when we know who we are and what we'll tolerate. Until we're tested, we don't know those things. That's when we wake up. That's when we know who we are. That's when people will show up and take your side. When you decide what it is you stand for, when standing is the hardest. — J. Michael Straczynski

Vayl, this is not a pleasant moment for me," I confessed.
"No?"
"Locked in a windowless, doorless room with a dancing, headless corpse and a secret sucker that can move fast enought to tear us both a new one if I miss? — Jennifer Rardin

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children. — Billy Corgan

Four things you can't recover:
The stone after the throw,
The word after it's said,
The occasion after it's missed,
The time after it's gone. — Deanna Wadsworth