Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

Curtis Hanson

Bad Influence, which is an early movie of mine that I'm very fond of. It was an unhappy experience when that picture got released, because it coincided with that ridiculous Rob Lowe videotape scandal.

Paul Simon

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

Kurt Vonnegut

Unhappy failures need not apply.

Moby

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

Gloria Steinem

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

Pat Conroy

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

Miuccia Prada

With women, the more unhappy they are, the more undressed they are.

Jenny Agutter

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

Ethan Hawke

If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

Gertrude Stein

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Hal Borland

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

Elton John

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

Ian Hart

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

Ernest Hemingway

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Fulton J. Sheen

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

Franz Schubert

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

George R. R. Martin

A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Hugh Blair

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

F. Lee Bailey

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

Jim Beaver

I was very unhappy about being killed off on 'Supernatural' in season 7.

Robert Kiyosaki

The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.

Robert Kiyosaki

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

Nora Roberts

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

Seth Godin

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Michael Dell

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

Michael Caine

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

Mason Cooley

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

Michael J. Fox

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

Patrick O'Brian

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.

Paul Schrader

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

Oscar Wilde

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.