Big Joys Quotes

#1. A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn't really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs.

Will Oldham

#2. Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

#3. Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

Noel Tichy

#4. Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#5. It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

Kate Bernheimer

#6. She knew there were only small joys in life
the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through
and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

Lorrie Moore

#7. One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

David Douglas Duncan

#9. Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. Dogs get after big living. They seem illiterate of worry, yet able to read joys that elude us. They quietly shout to us: Wag your backside to music instead of your tongue to malice.

Michael Cogdill

#11. Our dreams have been doctored.We belong no where. We sail unanchored on troubled seas.We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter..

Arundhati Roy

#12. I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.

Damien Chazelle

#13. Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

Sam Hunt

#14. It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.

Wilferd Peterson

#15. After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your original purpose of fixing the machine.

Robert M. Pirsig

#16. I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s.

Letitia Baldrige

#17. No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride ... and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well ... maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

Hunter S. Thompson

#18. Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

Henry Ward Beecher

#19. Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.

Albert Bigelow Paine

#20. I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

Tony Blair

#21. People, even well-intentioned people, were always trying to take away our quiet little successes and joys and replace them with big, overarching fears.

Alice Pung