Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
~By David Hockney ~
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
~By James Broughton ~
Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
~By Kamal Ahmed ~
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
~By Eugene O'Neill ~
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
~By Omar Bongo ~
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
~By Elias Canetti ~
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
~By Vanilla Ice ~
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
~By Eileen Caddy ~
I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.
~By Casper Van Dien ~
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
~By Javier Bardem ~
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.
~By Roland Joffe ~
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
~By Sean O'Casey ~
For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.
~By Perry Como ~
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
~By Margaret Halsey ~
The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.
~By Gil Gerard ~
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
I enjoyed reading as a child.
~By Goh C. Tong ~
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
~By Minoru Yamasaki ~
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
~By Liam Neeson ~
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
~By Henry Miller ~
People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
~By Joe Gibbs ~
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
~By Horace Mann ~
And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.
~By Rosanne Cash ~
Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
~By Beatrice Wood ~
I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.
~By Tyra Banks ~
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
~By William Godwin ~
I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.
~By Jamie Farr ~
Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
~By Helen Keller ~
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.
~By Dominique Swain ~
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
~By William Blake ~
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
I really love animals and enjoy working with them.
~By Emma Watson ~
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
~By Moliere ~
I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.
~By Alfred Molina ~
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
~By Billie Burke ~
I'm just thrilled to see people enjoying the music.
~By Juice Newton ~
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
~By William Law ~
I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.
~By David Hobson ~
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
~By Joseph Heller ~
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
~By Seneca ~
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
~By Anna Neagle ~
You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.
~By Trey Parker ~
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.
~By Christo ~
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
~By Victor Cherbuliez ~
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
I had the opportunity to do what I enjoy.
~By Haywood Nelson ~
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
~By John Acton ~
It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.
~By Goldie Hawn ~
I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.
~By Stephanie Beacham ~
I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.
~By Michael Schenker ~
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
~By Plato ~
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
~By Bernard Meltzer ~
There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.
~By Maurice Baring ~
Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.
~By Ed Asner ~
A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.
~By Clyfford Still ~
When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
~By Adrienne Barbeau ~
I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. Bullets Over Broadway is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.
~By Douglas Wood ~
But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.
~By Cliff Richard ~
I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.
~By George Martin ~
One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.
~By Jimmy Sangster ~
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
~By Sarah Bernhardt ~
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
~By Maxim Gorky ~
It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.
~By George Carey ~
If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.
~By Al Michaels ~
Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.
~By Al Jourgensen ~
I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.
~By Joss Whedon ~
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
~By Andy Rooney ~
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
~By Thomas Otway ~
It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
~By Max Beckmann ~
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.
~By Scott Bakula ~
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