Joyus Quotes & Sayings

Noisy. Quiet places are the noisiest. — Heidi Ayarbe

I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

I just don't want to die without a few scars. — Chuck Palahniuk

He understood privacy and freedom of expression were paramount to liberty, as incompatible as they may appear. One promoted yelling and screaming, while the other encouraged people to retreat and pull within. Yet, cornerstones to American democracy, people needed them both for the lives they took for granted. — Shelter Somerset

The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a girl been naturally joyus yet all that had befallen her must surely have driven away the bright birds, one by one, from her breast. As it was, made of more sombre clay, capable of deep happiness, but more easily drawn to the dark than the light, Fuchsia was even more open to the cruel winds of circumstance which appeared to have singled her out for particular punishment. — Mervyn Peake

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories. — Lois Lowry

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche. — Jesse Plemons

I didn't expect to feel pathos for the villains in our show. I feel quite moved in several of our episodes; I never realized that a show like 'Motive,' which aims for a broad appeal, could have that sort of emotional impact. — Kristin Lehman

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives. — Brit Marling

You have to go back to the '30s and '40s to see a film that's any good. — Terry Zwigoff

Whole fields have disappeared from view: the clergy, the military, electoral politics, teaching, even academia itself, for the most part, including basic science. — William Deresiewicz

It was consumer pull, rather than business push, that would determine where ads appeared. — David A. Vise

When I know that I have inspired someone to do something great, I know that I have done my job — Andrea L'Artiste

That was the irony: Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing. — Liane Moriarty