Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.
~By Leon Redbone ~
I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.
~By Chris LeDoux ~
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
~By William Penn ~
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom.
~By Mordechai Vanunu ~
He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.
~By Robert Ley ~
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
~By Moliere ~
But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.
~By Jonathan Shapiro ~
I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.
~By Tony Randall ~
It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work.
~By John Sebastian ~
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
~By Jean Paul ~
I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.
~By Sarah Sutton ~
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
~By William Faulkner ~
When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.
~By Richard Thompson ~
To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
~By Gene Tunney ~
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
~By Mordecai Richler ~
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
~By Georges Rouault ~
As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
~By Hermann Maier ~
It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
~By Johnny Mathis ~
Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
~By James McHenry ~
I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
~By Jim Carrey ~
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 ~
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 ~
I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.
~By Alex O'Loughlin ~
It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.
~By Charlie Watts ~
I never enjoyed working in a film.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.
~By Corrine Brown ~
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
~By Bliss Carman ~
I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
~By Mike Tyson ~
I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
~By Luther Vandross ~
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 ~
It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
~By Dinah Sheridan ~
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.
~By Danielle Steel ~
People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.
~By Tim Conway ~
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
~By Joseph Heller ~
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'
~By Albert Finney ~
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.
~By Allen Klein ~
I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.
~By Julie Christie ~
Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
~By Robert M. Parker, Jr. ~
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
~By Bodhidharma ~
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
~By Eric Clapton ~
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
~By Helen Keller ~
The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
~By James Cronin ~
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
~By Fred Allen ~
I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.
~By Dougray Scott ~
We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.
~By James Inhofe ~
I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.
~By Christina Milian ~
I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.
~By Darrell Royal ~
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
~By Clara Schumann ~
All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.
~By Jeremy Bulloch ~
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.
~By Matt Groening ~
I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
~By Acker Bilk ~
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 ~
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
~By Christian Bale ~
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
~By John Calvin ~
I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
~By Mark Twain ~
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.
~By Richard H. Baker ~
If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.
~By Tony Curtis ~
A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.
~By Brian Setzer ~
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.
~By Sarah Palin ~
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
~By Paul Hawken ~
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
~By Aesop ~
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.
~By Tom Berenger ~
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
~By Julie Burchill ~
I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.
~By Frank Woolley ~
Joys divided are increased.
~By J. G. Holland ~
I enjoy my time alone.
~By Stephanie Zimbalist ~
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
~By Don DeLillo ~
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
~By Pearl Bailey ~
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
~By Randy West ~
As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.
~By Johnny Ramone ~
The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.
~By Gerry Beckley ~
Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.
~By Sarah Brightman ~
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
~By Robert Rainy ~
I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.
~By Gil Gerard ~
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
~By Sam Mendes ~
Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
~By Jay Roach ~
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