Quotes About Joy

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

It's just a joy travelling with your job. You get to wander around these interesting cities and then things happen or you observe things and you go on stage at the end of the night and chat about it.

My dad, hes quite fun - he likes those unexpected pictures as well, so hell mess around and go wandering with me to get his picture taken.

Sometimes you just vibe with people. Some people have great energy, and you click with them, and you just wanna have a good time.

I'm happy that as many people who wanna listen to us can listen to us.

I'm so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, 'Ayyyy!' No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out.

There's just so many things I wanna do. At the end of the day, I wanna be happy.

I love Whitney Houston. I absolutely love her song, 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody.'

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?'

'Wanna Be That Song' has everything I want to say about love and about what I'm trying to be. I wanna be that part of your life, that song that means so much to you, the one that takes you back to that special place... the song that makes you laugh, the song that makes you cry when you need to cry, that makes you dance when you need to dance.

I never wanna lose the joy, passion, or even appreciation for how much fun it is to do what I love.

Like when you hear Aretha Franklin sing - it touches your soul. Crunk music, it makes you just wanna lose your mind - just be free and wild out.

People wanna dance. People wanna have a good time. And people wanna party.

I just want to live each moment to the fullest. And enjoy life.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.