Bob Ross Quotes

We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents. And that's when you really experience the joy of painting.

Bob Ross

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• I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Sacrifice

• I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Why
  • Happy

• Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Unhappy

• I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Father

• I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Sister

• My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Happy
  • Process
  • Wrong

• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Kids
  • Joy
  • Warfare

• He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Painting

• Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Thought
  • Ocean
  • Rare

• With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Long
  • Film
  • Doing

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Happy
  • Kind
  • Always

• I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Love
  • Joy

• As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

  

  Daniel L. Doctoroff
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Up
  • Great
  • Experience

• For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • American
  • Always
  • Need

• Old-school Dire Straits songs are on heavy rotation: 'So Far Away,' 'Romeo and Juliet' and of course 'Sultans of Swing.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • School
  • Far Away
  • Romeo And Juliet

• We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents. And that's when you really experience the joy of painting.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Joy