Gypsy Quotes

• I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

  John Masefield

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  'Sea Fever' (1902)

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• I move around a lot. Ive lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.

  Hilarie Burton

  Moving, Two, Curiosity

  FaceBook post by Hilarie Burton from Mar 02, 2016

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• I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

  Brittany Murphy

  Memories, Cities, People

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• For gypsies do not like to stay -
  They only come to go away.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Going Away

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• It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

  Franz Liszt

  Fusion, Impossible, Imagine

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• Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

  Paul McCartney

  Philosophy, Feet, Littles

  Song: Uncle Albert, Album: Ram

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• There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

  Robert W. Service

  Travel, Heart, Men

  Robert William Service, “The Men That Don't Fit In”

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• "Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Philosophical, Soul, Wake Up

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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• She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.

  Anais Nin

  Fall, Clothes, Bed

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• I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

  Delta Goodrem

  Writing, Needs

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• Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Light, Mystery, Spells

  Song: Luna's Gone, Album: Between Here and Gone, 2004

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• And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Soul, Want

  Song: Into The Mystic

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• I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

  Cher Lloyd

  Roots, Helping, My Own

  "Cher Lloyd: 'I don't want to be a joke'". Interview With Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.

  Kate Magowan

  Dance, Communication, Heart

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• Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Scared, Attractive, Apostles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.

  Roger Ebert

  Eye, I've Learned, Blind

  Roger Ebert's review of "Drag Me to Hell", www.rogerebert.com. June 3, 2009.

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• On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet. I will let the wind bathe my bare head. I will not speak, I will have no thoughts: But infinite love will mount in my soul; And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy, through the countryside - as happy as if I were a woman. "Sensation

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Summer, Blue, Wind

  Arthur Rimbaud, “Sensation”

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• What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Passion, Night, Hands

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

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• I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Jobs, Attitude, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

  Stephen King

  Running, Needs, Towns

  Stephen King (2016). “Thinner”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.

  Jimmy Page

  Rocks, Next Week, Glitter

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A safer, healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves. I am so lucky to live the life that I do.

  Drew Barrymore

  Live Life, Order, Different

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• That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff - "back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Wall, Flower

  "Stevie Nicks On Her Favorite Songs: A Music Mix Exclusive". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, www.ew.com. March 31, 2009.

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• We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Eyelashes, Names

  David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). “Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky”, p.194, Pluto Press

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• I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go.

  Taylor Kinney

  Home, Long, Bags

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