Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Jesse Williams

It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.

Daniel Briere

It was tough. When something like that happens, you realize that hockey's a game, life is life, and that there are more important things in life than hockey.

Waris Ahluwalia

I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.

Jillian Bell

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

Claire Tomalin

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

Melora Hardin

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

Ariel Winter

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

Jeff Mathis

I've been waiting all my life for this opportunity, and I'm pretty excited. I'm not going to put too much pressure on myself. I'm just going to do what I've done in the past.

Ricky Williams

realizes that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

William Wordsworth

A day it was when I could bearTo think, and think, and think again;With so much happiness to spare,I could not feel a pain.

Bronson Arroyo

Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy.

Tyler Cowen

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

Antisthenes

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Augustine Birrell

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augusten Burroughs

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

Ayn Rand

Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers-show me yours-show me that it is possible-show me your achievement-and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead"

Barbara Johnson

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

Art Linkletter

And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.

Brenda Ueland

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

Juvenal

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Al Franken

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

Demi Moore

I think that laughter and smiling are some of the best antidotes to ageing that you could possibly have. In general, I pretty much think of myself as still being about 5.

Blaise Pascal

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.

Diane Johnson

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

Eileen Caddy

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.