"Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting."

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Source : William Congreve, Elijah Fenton (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.333

Elijah Fenton

#Dancing Quotes #Delight Quotes

“Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.”
“I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.”
“If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.”

Source : Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.16, Random House
“Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy!”
“I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.”
“But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.37, Prestwick House Inc
“The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.”
“I'm not a conservative or a free market advocate or a Republican because, you know, I want people to like me.”

Source : "Libre Initiative Spreads Free Market Ideology To Latino Voters". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 13, 2016.

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