Happy Quotes

I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.

~ Olly Murs

I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

~ Zara Larsson

I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.

~ T. C. Boyle

You've got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun as possible.

~ Sophie Turner

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

~ Mattie Stepanek

Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.

~ Stephen Graham Jones

The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it's not happy music. It has that Nordic melancholic feeling to it. What fools you is the girls' voices. You know, I do think that is one of the secrets about ABBA. Even when we were really quite sad, we always sounded jubilant.

~ Bjorn Ulvaeus

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

~ Powers Boothe

I had lost my grandfather just a month-and-a-half before I made my debut. I was suddenly scoring runs and getting into the fray. It was a very trying period for me. I was happy as well as sad.

~ Mohammad Azharuddin

It's not like I force myself to think of sad things, but... it's more that I make music because it makes me happy.

~ Jamie Xx

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

~ Jackie Evancho

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

~ Lea Thompson

I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy.

~ David Lagercrantz

If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad or something, it will take me about a day. But I have a specific way of writing: I just listen to the beat. I think about what I'm going to write over the beat.

~ Astro

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

~ Cristela Alonzo

I would be a very sad person if I didn't have dance in my life. However I can, whatever I do, I just feel a lot of joy. Even if I am sad, if you take me to a rehearsal hall, I will automatically become happy.

~ Mouni Roy

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

~ Stephenie Meyer

There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.

~ Juan Gabriel

I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern Family' I guess I'm still kinda watching.

~ Anders Holm

If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.

~ Nana Mouskouri

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.

~ Mary Hart

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

~ Kimberly Elise

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

~ Harry Dean Stanton

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

~ Doug Davidson

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.

~ Erik Hassle

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

~ Don Knotts

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

~ Bret Mckenzie

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot.

~ Vint Cerf

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

~ David Ortiz

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

~ Taylor Swift

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

~ Michael Phelps

My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me with my make up and hair, and just be there to support me in whatever I do. She always makes sure that no matter what, I'm happy in what I'm doing.

~ Raini Rodriguez

I am so blessed. I have an incredible wife, children I adore; I'm a very happy man. I've got a great mom and dad and brothers and sisters and stuff, so I've always been happy. And I never stop smiling.

~ Michael Kelly

We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it.

~ Brie Larson

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

~ Rita Ora

I'm happy that I took time off to become a mom and raise my daughter properly and build a bond between the two of us.

~ Christina Milian

I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.

~ Goldie Hawn

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.

~ Brad Pitt