Mariella Frostrup Quotes

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

Mariella Frostrup

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• That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Different
  • Play
  • Joy

• Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.

  

  Randy West
  • Game
  • Joy
  • Always

• 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

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• 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

• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Trust

• When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Opportunities

• 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
  • People
  • Joy
  • Talk

• A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Woman

• Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

  

  Irving Penn
  • World
  • Trying
  • May

• When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Journey

• Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Favorite
  • England
  • Before

• And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Joy

• 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

• I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Walking

• From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bringMy passions from a common spring - From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow - I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone - And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone -

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Alone
  • Joy

• 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
  • Good
  • Past
  • Joy

• What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• I want other kids to see the joy in reading and literacy and how, if you read about things, they become so much closer, and if you're willing to put in the effort and time and passion, you can really understand them.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Reading

• Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Mind
  • May

• When you feel good, you're allowing good. When you don't feel good, you are not allowing good.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Feels
  • Attraction
  • Allowing

• Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Joy