Famous, Inspirational, Wisdom Quotes

- “When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.” – Marianne Williamson

- “Remember to light the candle of joy daily and all the gloom will disappear from your life.” – Djwhal Khul

- “You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.” – Buffy Sainte-Marie

- “Joy is untouched by circumstance.” – Unknown

- “In thy presence is fullness of joy.” – Psalms 16:11

- “Joy is the echo of God’s life in us.” – Abbot Coumba Marmion

- “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Guatama Buddha

- “What I know for sure is that you feel real JOY in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.” – Oprah

- “Joy springs from within; no one makes you joyous; you choose joyfulness.” – Unknown

- “Thou has made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.” – Acts 2:28

- “True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.” – Paul Pearsall

- “Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.” – Phil Jackson

- “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

- “Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.” – Oprah

- “Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.” – Sathya Sai Baba

- “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

- “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” – Richard Wagner

- “Joy is the highest expression of love.” – Abraham-Hicks

- “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa

- “Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” – Swedish proverb

- “Even when I’m not directing, that doesn’t stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.”
- “Fashion is so over the top.”
- “I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.”
- “I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.”
- “I don’t think know if anything’s going to translate anywhere. You’re making a movie, you hope it’s going to be funny, you can’t think about how it’s going to go over.”
- “I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.”
- “I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.”
- “I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.”

- “I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.”

- “I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.”

- “I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.”

- “I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.”

- “I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.”

- “I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people’s expectations of me as a comic actor.”

- “I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.”

- “I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.”

- “I’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.”

- “If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.”

- “It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn’t be anonymous.”

- “Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.”

- “Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.” – Bill Maher

- “A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.” – Carrie Snow

- “You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.” – Cindy Crawford

- “Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.” – Laurence J. Peter

- “The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.” – Unknown

- “A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.” – Arnold Haultain

- “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” – Charlotte Whitton

- “Women are always beautiful.” – Ville Valo

- “The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.” – Ellery Queen

- “Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.” – Mae West

- “Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.” – Nicole Hollander

- “Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.” – Unknown

- “Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.” – Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

- “A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.” – Chauncey Mitchell Depew

- “The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself.” – Elizabeth Metcalf

- “There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.” – Madeleine K. Albright

- “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde

- “There’s something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.” – Harold Robbins

- “When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute.” – Unknown

- “Men get laid, but women get screwed.” – Quentin Crisp

- “The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.” – Germaine Greer

- “Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.” – Ovid

- “Howiver, I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ‘em to match the men.” – George Eliot, “The Harvest Supper”, Adam Bede

- “Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn’t want to own one.” – W.C. Fields

- “Women really do rule the world. They just haven’t figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we’re all in big big trouble.” – Doctor Leon

- “If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” – Sydney J. Harris

- “There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.” – Alexandre Dumas

- “Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.” – Robert Brault

- “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

- “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Unknown

- “Anger is one letter short of danger.” – Unknown

- “Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

- “People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” – Will Rogers

- “Never write a letter while you are angry.” – Chinese Proverb

- “Get mad, then get over it.” – Colin Powell

- “The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.” – Bede Jarrett

- “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966

- “In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” – Mark Twain

- “Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” – Malachy McCourt

- “Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.” – Robert Brault

- “If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.” – Korean Proverb

- “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” – Chinese Proverb

- “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” – Albert Einstein

- “No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” – George Jean Nathan

- “Anger is short-lived madness.” – Horace

- “Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” – George Eliot

- “Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” – Lyman Abbott

- “Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” – Robert G. Ingersoll

- “Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.” – Unknown

- “Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger.” – Sweetpea Tyler

- “Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.” – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

- “Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.” – James Fallows

- “At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” – Marshall B. Rosenberg

- “Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.” – Benjamin Franklin

- “Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.” – Lemony Snicket

- “I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.” – Unknown

- “Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?” – Jareb Teague

- “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha

- “Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.” – Seneca

- “Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.” – Louis L’Armour

- “Never strike your wife – even with a flower.” – Hindu Proverb

- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce

- “When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894

- “Anger is a bad counselor.” – French Proverb

- “Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.” – Neil Kinnock

- “The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.” – Wilson Mizner

- “To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” – William H. Walton

- “The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” – Jacqueline Schiff

- “When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.” – Elbert Hubbard

- “Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” – Marcus Antonius

- “About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” – Manolo Blahnik

- “Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.” – James Earl Jones

- “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” – Walt Disney

- “All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” – Max Beerbohm

- “All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy.” – Eddie Campbell

- “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” – Carl Jung

- “Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.” – Orlando Bloom

- “Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant H. McGill

- “And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.” – Octavia Butler

- “And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.” – Peter Shaffer

- “Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.” – Godfried Danneels

- “Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.” – Joan D. Vinge

- “But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.” – Fisher Stevens

- “But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.” – Iris Murdoch

- “But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.” – Shelley Duvall

- “But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.” – Elizabeth Moon

- “But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.” – Octavia Butler

- “CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” – Arthur C. Clarke

- “Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.” – Joseph Barbera

- “Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.” – Erika Slezak

- “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” – Woody Allen

- “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ” – Jean Houston

- “Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.” – Unknown

- “Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.” – Henry Ward Beecher

- “Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.” – Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts”, Saturday Night Live

- “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – Unknown

- “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle

- “What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!” – Agnes Repplier

- “So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.” – Gordon W. Allport

- “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge

- “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” – Yiddish Proverb

- “When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.” – Alan Alda

- “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Kurt Vonnegut

- “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb

- “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart

- “A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.” – Puzant Kevork Thomajan

- “There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.” – Françoise Sagan

- “I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, «Ain’t that the truth.»” – Quincy Jones

- “Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.” – Henri Bergson

- “Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.” – Max Eastman

- “A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.” – Raymond Hitchcock

- “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” – Kurt Vonnegut

- “Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.” – Anna Fellows Johnston

- “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.” – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4

- “You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” – Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

- “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.” – Abraham Lincoln

- “Whoever said “laughter is the best medicine” never had gonorrhea.” – Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, “Robbed a Stoner Blind”, original airdate 16 November 2006

- “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” – Ken Kesey

- “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman

- “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” – Richard Whately

- “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” – Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957

- “I’d like mornings better if they started later.” – Unknown

- “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?” – Thornton Wilder

- “Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” – Robert Brault

- “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard

- “The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.” – John J. Welsh

- “If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.” – Unknown

- “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux

- “The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

- “There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” – Unknown

- “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown

- “I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.” – Jeb Dickerson

- “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.” – Joanne Sherman

- “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” – Josh Billings

- “The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon

- “Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.” – Argosy

- “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” – Robert Brault

- “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” – Thomas Jefferson

- “I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.” – Emily Dickinson

- “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.” – Henry David Thoreau

- “Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.” – Ambrose Bierce

- “No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.” – Robert Lynd

- “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” – William Feather

- “Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.” – Ellen Goodman

- “I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.” – Rita Rudner

- “Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”
- “I’d rather let the music speak for itself.”
- “I’m not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.”
- “It’s probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.”
- “People think our music’s very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it’s just the opposite, really… I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.”
- “Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.”
- “The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.”

- “We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”

- “It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – William Somerset Maugham

- “It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.” – John J. Watson

- “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – John Calvin Coolidge

- “The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

- “Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.” – James Corbett

- “Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.” – Anthony (Tony) Robbins

- “A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must….be undaunted when the going gets tough.” – Ronald Reagan

- “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal

- “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi

- “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis

- “The more you prepare, the luckier you appear.” – Terry Josephson

- “If-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.” – Unknown

- “Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.” – Dr. A. B. Meldrum

- “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” – Robert Hughes

- “Am I a romantic? I’ve seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I’m a romantic.”
- “Anything I’ve done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.”
- “As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
- “France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.”

- “How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.”

- “I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”

- “I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”

- “I guess I’m attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”

- “I may have a feather duster down my pants.”

- “I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”

- “I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.”

- “I think everybody’s nuts.”

- “I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.”

- “I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.”

- “I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.”

- “I’m not sure I’m adult yet.”

- “I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”

- “If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”

- “If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.”

- “It’s all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It’s like you’ve met your reason to live.”