Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

Harry Dean Stanton

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• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• 'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • American
  • Dark
  • Happiness

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Kids
  • Joy
  • Warfare

• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Happy
  • Reality
  • Happiness

• My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Parents

• When someone turns to me and addresses me as 'our Queen', that word means a lot to me because it makes me feel that they know my life is theirs. My joy is their joy. My worries are their worries. If the word 'queen' means something to me, 'our queen' means everything to me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Joy

• Then said a Second - 'Ne'er a peevish Boy Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy, And He that with his hand the Vessel made Will surely not in after Wrath destroy'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Joy
  • Boy

• If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Musician

• The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

  

  James Bobin
  • Simple
  • Joy

• Not to be able to move around or do things without thinking - that's tough. I may end up that way, but if I do, I hope to hell my intellect will take over, and I'll find some kind of joy and a way to contribute.

  

  Adam West
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • May

• This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Pride

• A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • Life
  • Time
  • Joy

• I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means.

  

  Jessica White
  • True
  • Joy

• I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • Joy

• There are seasons in life. Don't ever let anyone try to deny you the joy of one season because they believe you should stay in another season... Listen to yourself. Trust your instincts. Keep your perspective.

  

  Jane Clayson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Joy

• If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies instead of the land of corpses.

  

  John C. Wright
  • Joy

• The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

  

  Denholm Elliott
  • Joy
  • English

• I was waiting for the world to change. I'm no longer waiting; I'm part of that movement. I think our role as performers and entertainers is so much bigger.

  

  Alyssa Edwards
  • World
  • Change
  • Role

• How would you feel about sharing your bed?" she asked. Tristan blinked. "Excuse me?" "He'd love to!" Gary said. Tristan shot him a look, "Good," said Ivy, failing to notice Gary's wink. "Ella can be a pillow hog, but all you have to do is roll over her.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Feels
  • Failing
  • Bed

• I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Good
  • Writer

• Certainly, critics are not all created equal.

  

  Lionel Shriver

• I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Dealing