Joy Quotes
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All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.
Elaine Stritch
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Life is filled with tragedy, with long patches of struggle and with, I think, beautiful bursts of joy and accomplishment. Blessed with those moments, you just try to relax as much as possible and focus on the little things, like the joy of changing your baby's diaper.
David Dastmalchian
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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
Gabrielle Roy
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I really want my acting to be definitive a lot of times, but I must feel like in any given moment there is a lot of things going on with Rose. I kept telling Denzel [Washington] throughout filming [Fences] that the house is her joy and her tomb.
Viola Davis
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What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?
Nancy Grace
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne
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The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
Erykah Badu
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The truth is, I just love to work. I love being on set. I love being around crews. I love being around my fellow actors. Anything that can keep that going is a joy for me.
Jaime Ray Newman
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They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.
Erykah Badu
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Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund
William Shakespeare
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My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
Tadashi Shoji
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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Zhuangzi
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You’ve been a father to me.Your 1960’s speak.Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV.While the mountainside was shining.Wild colors of my destiny
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.
Alan King
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
Norman Vincent Peale
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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
Christo
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I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
Mary Gordon
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The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.
Katharine Hepburn
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You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.
John Travolta
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You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.
Pam Brown
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My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.
Yousuf Karsh
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I love being a husband and a father. That aspect of my life has been a joy.
Jason Priestley
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
Feist
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Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
Gaston Bachelard