Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
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Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.
Lewis Thomas
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
Anatole Broyard
It obviously makes a statement about status and the ability to afford it but I think it's also a spontaneous, celebratory thing.
Brett Anderson
Their eyebrows almost tumble into their eyes. That means that blurting things out is very important to them. Spontaneous communication.
Rose Rosetree
What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.
Derrick Jensen
Dining in the bar or lounge is easy and friendly and spontaneous and lively. What's not to like about that?
Clark Wolf
Spontaneous and honest love admits errors, hesitations, and human failings; it can be tested and repaired. Idealized love ties us because we already intuit that it is unreal and are afraid to face this truth.
Nancy Friday
We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited.
Henry Barton
The phones started ringing at 4:31 that day. The reaction was spontaneous combustion.
Tom Mcmillan
This album really has to make a statement. We've toured for 18 months. Now we have a brand name. Now we know each other as a band. The first album was just us together at home, a spontaneous product. Now it's time to make that record.
Duff Mckagan
[In contrast, the non-Baxter will simply go with his gut:] he has a spontaneous, 'Hey, what's that thing across the street?' thing, ... And, of course, it's perfect.
Michael Showalter
I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.
Leonardo Dicaprio
I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that's the type of man I'm attracted to - somebody with that spontaneous spirit.
Summer Altice
As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
Lance Morrow
There is so much more that needs to be done urgently. We need to improve conditions in the spontaneous camps and reach those who have stayed further up in the mountains.
Barbara Stocking
I shall always equate a spontaneous song with a complete moment of happiness...
Lynne Caiafa
We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold Glasow
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach
We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith Martin
We have no practices at all. We just wing it. It's spontaneous. No one knows what to expect. Even hearing the same song we played the week before, it could come off different. Everything's off the wall. It comes out better that way.
Golf Brooks
Our sex life has been ruined since the arrival of our first baby. We can't be so spontaneous because we don't want the nanny to hear us. We can't scream and yell like we used to.
Cindy Crawford
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E e cummings
She relied hardly at all on spontaneous foot traffic coming through the door. She has cultivated corporate and Internet clients. It's more an evolution of the company and not (about) the community.
John Angelo
There's not stuffiness, there's not reverence about literature ... it's actually very hip, often spontaneous, dramatizations of what's appearing in the magazine, to show just how alive and up-to-the-minute some of the fiction can be.
Bill Buford
It was a spontaneous appeal from the heart. Maybe in the heat of the moment I didn't choose the best words [on a rant at Norwich fans to be more passionate].
Delia Smith
I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
Dorothy Parker
It was the most playful, spontaneous act I think I have ever seen from an adult.
Al Siebert
This was not a spontaneous public action, ... It was closely organized and closely coordinated by a series of agitators.
Andy Johnson
Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.
Jeph Jacques
Parties are becoming more spontaneous.
John Galloway
[During the interview with the family, the children] all seemed to be in agreement with their mom, ... they all seemed spontaneous in their comments.
Irene Peters
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
Henry Miller
We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith S. Marin
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
John Berger
This conversation was spontaneous. There certainly was no script. It was not even particularly coherent.
Doug Christie
It's challenging to get it to look spontaneous, ... That's tricky to do.
Lisa Kudrow
The King incident was a spontaneous reaction to a middle-of-the-night situation. I think Rampart is worse, ... Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.
Lou Cannon
A decision of this magnitude is never spontaneous. My job is to make sure the journal operates smoothly.
Graham Morris
It's an opportunity to touch more customers and spur a lot more spontaneous transactions.
Dan Schatt
[When Gershwin premiered] Rhapsody in Blue, ... too spontaneous, that it created formal gaps. And it's important, therefore, to be able to play in the moment when performing this work, but also to have a clear sense of when time is passing. It's image-filled, but that's New York.
John Pickett
It really helps to play with someone like him who's very spontaneous and always trying new things in the concerts. You have to always be aware of what the other person is doing and play off of that.
Joshua Bell
Ice cream trucks represent a spontaneous opportunity for kids to get into a certain kind of mischief that's pretty serious.
Councilman Clem Lee
We'd been trying to come up with things for weeks. We were sitting in a bar and suddenly I came up with this impulsive, spontaneous thing. I tried it at the bar.
Kirsten Smith
The first one was much nicer. It was spontaneous and unorganized. It went beyond what anyone in charge wanted.
Donella Meadows
I walk around and see how inventive they are, and you'll hear them break out in spontaneous chants. It creates an electric atmosphere.
Dan Chapman
I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite secure enough to allow it to be spontaneous. So the more prepared I am, the more I'm able to kind of let it go . . .
Michelle Pfeiffer
We have three who've gone down there ... and we're training other spontaneous volunteers as we speak so they will be available.
Nedra Turney
Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.
Mark Caine
Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.
Ben Kingsley
I am more spontaneous than my character...
Gillian Anderson
He admits setting a chair on fire but denies using flammable liquid. It was an unplanned, spontaneous action.
Goran Bergendahl
Spontaneous fundraising is occurring everywhere. There was even an unexpected fundraiser on First Night, the New Year's Eve celebration in Westport, which resulted in a contribution of more than $5,000.
Dianne Sherman
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
William Wordsworth
You cannot have a spontaneous socialist revolution.
Ernest Mandel
The spontaneous understanding of geometrical concepts and maps by this remote human community provides evidence that core geometrical knowledge is a universal constituent of the human mind.
Elizabeth Spelke
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas
All those experiences are brought to the table, and suddenly it all fits perfectly. I'm very happy to be playing in Summit, because the music is very fresh, very spontaneous. Even though it's composed, there's a lot of room to take it somewhere different than we were yesterday.
Zakir Hussain
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