Famous Quotes & Sayings

Curt Schilling

The only joy out of this comes out of winning, ... especially now.

David Nicholls

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others

Aaron Hill

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

Aaron Hill

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

She was such a joy. When you talked to her, she just glowed.

She was really, really focused. She did a lot of scoring and dishing off. When she sat out a quarter, we really didn't miss a beat. Joy Rutland was phenomenal.

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!

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.

Alan Cohen

You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.

Alan Cohen

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

Alan Cohen

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Alan Cohen

Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

Werner Herzog

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

William Shakespeare

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Gail Kelly

One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

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.

Albert Einstein

I get the most joy in life out of music.

Albert Einstein

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Albert Einstein

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

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.

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..

Victor LaValle

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.