Joy Quotes

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

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.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

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.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

I want to be the joy to people through my work.