Happy Quotes

"I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things"

Ricky Williams, Athlete

"I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy"

Lauren Alaina, Musician

"I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night"

Kenny Hickey, Musician

"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling"

Roman Polanski, Director

"Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs"

Malcolm Wilson, Politician

"There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself"

James D'arcy, Actor

"The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy"

J. Donald Walters, Author

"I'm happy to have had everything healed. We're fine"

Marla Maples, Actress

"I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy"

Marcel Carne, Director

"As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!"

Samuel Pepys, Writer

"Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all"

Heywood Broun, Journalist

"Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors"

Mark Mothersbaugh, Musician

"I know a lot of people didn't understand why I came back, and people are still going to say it was stupid and it was the wrong decision. But I'm happy"

Cobi Jones, Athlete

"There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death"

Kit Williams, Author

"I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it"

Katy Perry, Musician

"My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones"

Kiana Tom, Model

"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning"

Joe Pantoliano, Actor

"If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself"

Jeremy London, Actor

"Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries"

Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer

"Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero"

Carroll O'Connor, Actor

"Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy"

Robin Tunney, Actress

"Who's happy these days?"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better"

Nick Johnson, Athlete

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