Happy Quotes

"Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else"

"Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead"

"The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%"

Sete Gibernau, Athlete

"When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning"

Marv Levy, Coach

"I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more"

Jennifer Capriati, Athlete

"It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home"

Emanuel Ax, Musician

"No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning"

D. L. Hughley, Actor

"People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them"

Len Deighton, Historian

"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"

Ken Hensley, Musician

"To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have"

Vin Diesel, Actor

"I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do"

Scott Foley, Actor

"If you want to be happy for life, love what you do"

Mary Higgins Clark, Author

"I feel my best when I'm happy"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need"

Carl Karcher, Businessman

"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them"

Ira Gershwin, Musician

"Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour"

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer

"I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants"

Martin Henderson, Actor

"I walk into the studio and we're all so happy to see each other"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy"

Kristin Chenoweth, Actress

"It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?"

Lyle Lovett, Musician

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes"

Hugh Downs, Entertainer

"Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy"

Eddie Barclay, Musician

"That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings"

Alice Munro, Writer

"Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously"

Joan Allen, Actress

"While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it"

Don Fraser, Politician

"So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper"

Maria Menounos, Actress

"I need freedom to be happy"

Johnny Weissmuller, Actor

"Obviously dunking on Horace Grant and Michael, in those circumstances, is just an incredible thing to happen. I'm happy I was able to make that play, and I'm fortunate I was in that position where I could make that happen for my team"

John Starks, Athlete

"But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully"

John Crowley, Writer

"I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office"

James Rollins, Author

"It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither"

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poet

"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable"

Ben Okri, Poet

"I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway"

Wayne Coyne, Musician

"My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking"

Susan Hampshire, Actress

"Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America"

Sue Wicks, Athlete

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