Andrew Solomon Quotes
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.Andrew Solomon
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
I am an ordinary person.
Frances McDormand -
I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
Gale Gordon -
My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
Aaron Neville -
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 -
I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
Yo-Yo Ma
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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 -
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
Ed Asner -
Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
J. R. Smith -
It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
Nancy Pickard -
Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
Gary Zukav -
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
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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
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 -
A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
Patricia Heaton -
The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
Said Nursi -
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 -
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis
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I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
Kevin Spacey -
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
Ezra Pound -
I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
Victoria Moran -
My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.
Kanye West -
When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.
J. C. Chandor -
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
Andrew Solomon