I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.
~ John Cusack
I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
~ J. K. Simmons
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
I think when romantic comedies are done well, it's a great genre. 'When Harry Met Sally' is kind of a benchmark for me, but I'm very happy to admit that I love 'Pretty Woman.' I do! It's a great film, and so is 'Sixteen Candles.' I was a big John Hughes fan - still am. I have moments where I have to watch a Hughes film.
~ Jamie Dornan
When you have kids and get older, it goes beyond flowers and chocolate. It's about waking up with a baby, letting her sleep in, and making a coffee for her when she wakes up. To me, being romantic is putting someone else first and thinking about what makes them happy.
~ James Marsden
I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.
~ Nicholas Sparks
'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.
~ Henry Ian Cusick
I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work.
~ John Logan
I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.
~ Renzo Piano
I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.
~ Justin Chon
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
~ Oscar Wilde
People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.
~ Toni Collette
You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
~ Victoria Justice
A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.
~ Susannah York
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
~ Penelope Cruz
Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me.
~ Tracy Mcmillan
If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.
~ Howard Stern
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.
~ David Nicholls
When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
~ Candice Accola
I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
~ Frances Bean Cobain
There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy.
~ Ty Segall
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
~ Al Yankovic
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.
~ Britney Spears
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
~ H. Jackson Brown
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
~ Herschel Walker
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
~ John Ruskin
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
~ Victoria Principal
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
~ Maya Angelou
I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.
~ Edward Hirsch
I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
~ Natasha Trethewey
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
~ Vikram Seth
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.
~ Alex Flinn
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
~ John D. Rockefeller
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.
~ Kurt Cobain
All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy.
~ Drew Fuller
My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.
~ Drew Barrymore
Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
~ Karen Salmansohn
A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
~ Janet Fitch
