Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
Orhan Pamuk -
I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
Gayle Forman -
A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
Zadie Smith -
I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
Inga Muscio -
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso -
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis
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Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
Walt Whitman -
And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It's always great to see young swimmers and their excitement and the joy that they have in the water.
Katie Ledecky -
I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.
Chris Stapleton -
It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.
Didi Conn
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There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way.
Liam Cunningham -
Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.
Pope Francis -
Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.
Stevie Wonder -
There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
Oswald Chambers -
The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.
Gail Tsukiyama -
Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?
Ted Dekker
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Why, this man seemed barely older than himself, Emmanuel thought. He gave off a sense of almost irresistible vigor. Quite simply, he had at last become a man...
Gabrielle Roy -
With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.
Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons -
Wherever I am, I will embrace the life and the lifestyle. I've lived in Hollywood before, and we've moved into the old neighbourhood in West Hollywood. I love California.
John Barrowman -
In principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
Jeremy Bentham -
I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro and you'll all die - in thirty years due to inhalation of secondhand smoke."
P. J. O'Rourke -
I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.
Joni Mitchell