Quotes About Joy

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

After we got our first family car with a tape deck, my dad acquired exactly three cassette tapes: A 'Best of ABBA,' 'Private Heaven' by Sheena Easton, and the soundtrack to 'Xanadu.' I also unironically love 'Xanadu.'

I wasn't into tapping when it began dying down. Ever since I started, it's been alive for me. I just want to keep on dancing. I want to do it all.

There's a certain amount of pressure that comes from playing real people. It's a pressure to deliver something fair and right to the real person and any living relatives. But generally, it's a joy, as you get to target your interest on a particular era.

Having targets is really fun but catching the ball is even more fun.

I get more satisfaction out of comedy stuff. I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to do it, and the kids should get to see you as a parent reading for your own pleasure. It's not something you send your kids off to do, 'Go into your room and read for 15 minutes or else.' It becomes a task then.

I derive a lot of joy from cooking. Had cooking been a mandatory task, I probably would have felt differently about it.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

To taste fully is to live fully.

If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.

Honestly, nothing tastes as good as feeling good.

I know people want to get out there, and they're all tattooed up, and they're all serious and stuff and ready to fight. I'm ready to fight, but I still have a smile on my face at the same time.

I slept fourteen feet from a polka tavern as a kid growing up. I heard polkas all night long, people singing and drinking beers and having a great time. I know more polkas than Frankie Yancovic!

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.

It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'