Richard Wagner Quotes

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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• I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Things
  • Thought
  • Literature

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

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Friends
  • Joy
  • WIld

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Kids
  • Things
  • Young

• I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Love
  • Things

• My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'

  

  Sam Richards
  • Way
  • Study
  • Things

• Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Today
  • Things

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

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• I always compartmentalized so many different things.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Always
  • Things

• It's not easy being Hugh Jackman, but he wears the attention better than anyone I've ever met. He treats every person he meets the same and finds joy in everything he does. The lesson I've learned is that if you work incredibly hard, and you're nice to everybody, you'll be fine.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Nice

• Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novel

• It happens that all those who have something of mine, painting, mobile, or static statue, say that it makes them very happy. For example, children adore mobile statues and understand their meaning immediately. I have seen children, here in France, in America or in Great Britain, run and shout with joy in my exhibitions. They like it instinctively.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Great
  • Children
  • America

• I was looking for joy Yes, yes, yes, yes When I was little bitty boy If I would have known what makes a world go 'round I would have known what goes up must come down If you love me like I love you Mademoiselle, je vous aime, voulez-vous?

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • World
  • Joy

• If something I do now sounds like something I did in the past, it's because I played it. I can't help sounding like myself. That's going to happen. The things that I play on guitar that resonate with me are probably the same things that resonated with me when I started playing in Joy Division.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Help
  • Past
  • Joy

• Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • World
  • Joy
  • Powerful

• I was doing theatre when somebody noticed me and referred me to Raju Hirani. And Raju saw me on camera, and there, I was a heavy guy with long hair. But I got selected for the role of Joy in '3 Idiots.'

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Long
  • Guy
  • Joy

• There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Joy

• There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

  

  Jean Paul
  • World
  • Joy
  • Leaving

• Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!

  

  Gabriele D'Annunzio
  • Life
  • Business
  • Earth

• Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

  

  Anna Chennault
  • Opportunity
  • Equal
  • Privilege

• Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dark

• My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

  

  Sadegh Hedayat
  • May
  • Fear
  • Die

• Joy is not in things; it is in us.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Joy
  • Things