Smile Quotes

"The weaker the country, the stronger the smile"

"When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face"

Sue Wicks, Athlete

"The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom"

Guy de Maupassant, Writer

"If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger"

Jim Allchin, Businessman

"We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers"

Marguerite Gardiner, Writer

"In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then"

Arthur Bremer, Criminal

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

Samuel Pepys, Writer

"We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person"

Neil Cavuto, Journalist

"I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out"

Patti LaBelle, Musician

"While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile"

Paul Reiser, Comedian

"I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people"

Jennifer Saunders, Comedian

"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat"

Julian Huxley, Scientist

"The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall"

Allison Krauss, Musician

"When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown"

Robert Southwell, Clergyman

"Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward"

Andrea Thompson, Actress

"I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it"

Robert Smith, Musician

"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England"

Horace Porter, Soldier

"May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval"

Thomas S. Monson, Clergyman

"Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this"

Shania Twain, Musician

"I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile"

Ray Conniff, Musician

"Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!"

William Cartwright, Dramatist

"I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile"

Jason Ritter, Actor

"You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile"

Teemu Selanne

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough"

Richard M. DeVos, Businessman

"Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye"

Samuel Lover, Artist

"I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick"

Robert Powell, Actor

"Smile at a stranger. See what happens"

Patti LuPone, Musician

"Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth"

Andrei A. Gromyko, Politician

"In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it"

David Wells, Athlete

"Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort"

Simon Travaglia, Author

"When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward"

Andrea Thompson, Actress

"If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi"

Karen McDougal, Model

"When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world"

Lawrence G. Lovasik, Clergyman

"I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile"

Steve Brown, Musician

"And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to"

Rosamund Pike, Actress

"Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves"

James Young, Musician

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