Dizzy Quotes - Page 5

• Shane it came back to her in a dizzy rush how he'd stopped her on the way into this place, in the faint dawn of light 'i wnt you to promise me one thing. promise me you'll marry me. Not now. Someday.

  Rachel Caine

  Light, Promise, Dawn

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.12, Allison & Busby

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• No spinning," I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Beautiful, Heart, Spinning

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.368, Hachette UK

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• I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Teacher, Men

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• Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Giving, Jazz

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• When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, New York, Different

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• No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries.

  Jack Spicer

  Ocean, Love Is, Sea

  Jack Spicer, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian (2008). “My Vocabulary Did this to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.178, Wesleyan University Press

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• The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Air, Water, Force Of Will

  Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.41, Random House

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• A lot of people call Dizzy old fashioned but so is the bible.

  Mickey Roker

  People, Old Fashioned

  Interview with Ethan Iverson, ethaniverson.com. April 2011.

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• Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

  Helen Fisher

  Romantic Love, Years, Romance

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• Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk

  John Lewis

  Music, Innovation, Jazz

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• I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around.

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Art, Player

  "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

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• I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

  Elmore Leonard

  Home, Writing, Want

  "This much I know: Elmore Leonard". Interview with John O'Connell, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

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• I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down. "Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing." "Huh?" "Scaredybrave." "Scave." Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny.

  Emma Donoghue

  Fall, Thinking, Laughing

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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• For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his shirt and pulled him toward her. His arms went around her, lifting her almost out of her sandals, and then he was kissing her—or she was kissing him, she wasn’t sure, and it didn’t matter. The feel of his mouth on hers was electric; her hands gripped his arms, pulling him hard against her. The feel of his heart pounding through his shirt made her dizzy with joy. No one else’s heart beat like Jace’s did, or ever could.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Kissing, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1371, Simon and Schuster

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• Once again, I don’t quite know where I’m headed Steph. It seems that every few years I’m shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can’t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do. And I’m not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I’m doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think “I’m where I want to be now.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Mean, Thinking, Sigh Of Relief

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• ... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

  John Keats

  Beautiful, Art, Stars

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.66, Рипол Классик

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• Surprisingly, fainting sounded like a really good idea. If I fainted, I'd be unconscious, so I wouldn't have to see the impossible anymore, nor would I have to feel so dizzy and sick. Than maybe when I woke up, all of this would go away and I'd find it was all just a bad dream. The mist started to turn dark around the edges.....For the record: fainting sucks.

  Jenna Black

  Dream, Dark, Ideas

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• This girl said "Yes" when I wasn't ready. I kissed her lightly and got so dizzy I had to sit down.

  Antonio Banderas

  Girl, Kissing, First Kiss

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• For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Stars, Memories, Reality

  "Altered Carbon". Book by Richard Morgan, 2002.

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• Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash, While fleet and far the living lightnings flash... And see the fiery arrows fall and rise, In dizzy chase along the rattling skies,— How stirs the spirit while the echoes roll, And God, in thunder, rocks from pole to pole!

  Robert Montgomery

  Fall, Clouds, Echoes

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem”, p.26

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• My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

  Ben Affleck

  Couple, Father, Years

  "THR Cover: Confessions of Ben Affleck" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility.

  Camille Paglia

  Writing, Ideas, Hands

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

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• [Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

  Janet Leigh

  Acceptance, Air, Together

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• Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

  Antonya Nelson

  Stars, Kindness, Irony

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• Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but... thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!

  Red Buttons

  Cancer, Feet, Florida

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