Eleanor Farjeon Quotes

Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.

Eleanor Farjeon

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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

• I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Good
  • Day
  • Joy

• Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mother

• 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
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Mom

• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Kids
  • Joy
  • Warfare

• I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Ecstasy

• 'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Joy
  • Selfish

• I ain't a killer, but don't push me Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Joy
  • Revenge
  • Killer

• You are my pride and joyAnd I just love you, little darlin'Like a baby boy loves his toyYou've got kisses sweeter than honeyAnd I work every day to give you all I knowAnd that's why you're my pride and joy.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Work
  • Why
  • Joy

• There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Joy

• 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

• Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Why
  • Joy

• Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Music
  • Joy

• Fruit in the morning is such a big joy for me. I like to grab fruit from the tree, et cetera. I don't feel that way with vegetables. Fruit, you can eat it at any time, any moment, in any type of situation. I like everything about fruit; I like the color.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Time
  • Joy
  • Morning

• In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Important
  • Hate

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

  

  James Bobin
  • Simple
  • Joy

• Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.

  

  Albert II of Belgium
  • Joy

• I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Joy

• The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, television, theater, and also British radio. In fact, my dream as an actor when I started out was to be able to work in all the media. Thankfully, that's what I'm being given to do.

  

  David Suchet
  • Work
  • Career
  • Dream

• Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • May
  • Success

• The corporate Catch-22: Don't be flexible, lose good women; be flexible, lose good women... A company listening to women's desires for flexibility and therefore fewer promotions, giving fewer promotions to women, and then being sued for giving fewer promotions to women. Yiddish has a word for this: chutzpah.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Giving

• We've had some seniors that have had tough years. I know this year wasn't how it was envisioned to this point. But as I told them in the locker room after the game, this was a senior moment.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Years
  • Point
  • Seniors

• Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Joy
  • Constant
  • Ecstasy