Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toni Morrison

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

Tim Duncan

I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway?

Thomas Gray

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Vin Scully

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

Victor Hugo

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Victor Borge

A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.

Suzanne Collins

He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.

Suzanne Collins

My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It's not as if I'm never friendly. Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.

Taylor Lautner

Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!

Rosamund Pike

And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

Rupert Brooke

For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.

Shahrukh Khan

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

Sue Wicks

When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.

Ricky Schroder

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

Ray Bradbury

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

A smile can work wonders. Put it to work for you.

Serena Williams

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

Serena Williams

I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.

Serena Williams

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

Seamus Heaney

Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.

Michelle Kwan

I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.

Neil Kinnock

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

Neil Gaiman

There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

John Templeton

Living life with a smile is like throwing yeast into a bowl of flour, adding warm water and waiting for the flour to rise. It multiplies may times over.

Theodor Herzl

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

Kin Hubbard

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

Michael Bloomberg

When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.

Lauryn Hill

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

Laura Linney

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

John Robinson

He was always smiling. He just didn't like pictures, and wouldn't smile in them.

She's there at 8 a.m. with a smile on her face.

Jim Allchin

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

Etta James

When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.