Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy!

May Sarton

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Maya Angelou

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

Maria Montessori

Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Maria Montessori

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

John Scofield

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

John Piper

To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.

John Piper

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

John Piper

God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

Adanma Ekeledo

We were just trying some things out. You never know when you'll need it.

Richard Kovalcheck

We were just being aggressive. We were trying to get a big play right off the bat.

Robert Benton

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Robert Bly

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

Suzanne Shaw

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

Robert Altman

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

Robert Altman

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

Robert A. Heinlein

Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.