Happy Quotes

"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war"

Margot Asquith, Author

"By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size"

Steven Chu, Scientist

"We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy"

Richard Gere, Actor

"I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment"

Michael Bolton, Musician

"The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh"

Matthew Perry, Actor

"I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy"

Sanjay Dutt, Actor

"I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material"

Kate Clinton, Comedian

"I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups"

Patti LaBelle, Musician

"You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way"

Nia Vardalos, Actress

"I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always"

Jenna Elfman, Actress

"Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations"

Jane Asher, Actress

"You can be right or you can be happy"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives"

Tom Bosley, Actor

"And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people"

Miranda Otto, Actress

"They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now"

Ursula Andress, Actress

"I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do"

Giorgio Moroder, Producer

"I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here"

Vinny Testaverde

"I am just happy to be part of the Nike family"

LeBron James, Athlete

"I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other"

Ben Chandler, Politician

"As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism"

Cofer Black, Public Servant

"I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy"

Bruce Sterling, Writer

"Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too"

Lorrie Fair, Athlete

"They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine"

Hugh Miller, Scientist

"It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!"

Bootsy Collins, Musician

"I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me"

Heidi Klum, Model

"Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming"

Scott Baio, Actor

"The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers"

Matthew Perry, Actor

"The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy"

Mischa Barton, Actress

"Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime"

Eric Lindros, Athlete

"The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another"

Adam Clarke, Theologian

"Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man"

Jake Roberts, Celebrity

"I'm not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins"

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Politician

"I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"I don't believe in happy endings"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"I'm happy to be black. I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that"

LL Cool J, Musician

"I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with"

J. Carter Brown

"Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

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