Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Calder

About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).

Alexander Calder

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

Albert Einstein

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

Ali Smith

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Adelaide Anne Procter

One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.

Aaron Neville

My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

A. J. Muste

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Aeschylus

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

Agatha Christie

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..

Adrian Grenier

Food is just the greatest joy on the planet.

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Werner Herzog

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

Greta Garbo

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Emily Dickinson

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Victor LaValle

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

Dwight L. Moody

There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.

George Karl

In coaching, you don't ever really have that joyful fun, but there's no question that it's enjoyable.

With tears of joy, we shared the news and even thought of a name for her.

Vandana Shiva

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

William Shakespeare

Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

David Jeremiah

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

David Berg

Heaven is simply going to be an intensification, amplification, magnification and extension of all the thrills and joys and pleasures of this life, the Heaven on Earth that we're now enjoying, only it will be even more Heavenly there, and forever, praise God!

David Berg

Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities.

David O. McKay

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

Daisaku Ikeda

Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.

Cormac McCarthy

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!

Billy Graham

When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

Billy Graham

There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.

Without the spontaneous joy of play in the equation, kids may tire of their one sport and quit. And when they quit, they rarely come back to that sport again.

Heinrich Boll

No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.