Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Beverly Sills

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...

Charlie Munger

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

Terry Jones

I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!

Tullian Tchividjian

The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.

Dean Koontz

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

Elizabeth Bishop

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

Ben Jonson

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?

Aristotle

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Emile M. Cioran

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

Emile M. Cioran

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

Edgar Allan Poe

I fell in love with melancholy

Dick Cavett

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.

Otis Smith

Whether you like him or dislike him, Kobe is a special player. He has the killer instinct in him that a lot of the talented players don't have. When he smells blood, he goes for the jugular. That's a (Michael) Jordan-like quality.

Benjamin Franklin

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

Hoshyar Zebari

Make no mistake. We are here to stay, ... We are not temporary or interim leaders. After Saddam's topple, you have to live with these faces, whether you like them or you dislike them.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

Dan Brown

She (Blythe Brown) dislikes the public attention, and I (see) no reason why she should be put through the stress that the glare of publicity would cause.

Oscar Wilde

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope

Walter Kirn

She started out all excited and impressed. ... (She took an immediate dislike to Bill, who struck her as a narcissistic snake.)

David Horsey

What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.