Quotes About Joy

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy.

Most people live their lives as if the end were always years away. They measure their days in love, laughter, accomplishment, and loss. There are moments of sunshine and storm. There are schedules, phone calls, careers, anxieties, joys, exotic trips, favorite foods, romance, shame, and hunger. A person can be defined by clothing, the smell of his breath, the way she combs her hair, the shape of his torso, or even the company she keeps.

His wife greets him warmly as his two young

The less you want, the happier you'll be.

Joy is a well-made object, equalled only by the joy of making it.

Skibosh ended up writing a memoir and calling it, If You Wanna Have Fun, Go Someplace Else

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

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.

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

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.

I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.