Joyful Book Quotes

#1. The Brothers Karamazov is a joyful book.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Sophie Swetchine

#3. Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future.

Lawrence Summers

#4. Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual.

Lois Lowry

#5. First you point your pea shooter at me; now you want more beer. Hell of a first date.

D. Scott Meek

#6. People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.

Garret Keizer

#7. Tobi had summed it up in Jigsaw: A band is any song you ever played with anybody even if only once.

Sara Marcus

#8. In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

Bob Dylan

#9. If she's gonna love again, it won't be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers.

Lindsay Detwiler

#10. For my part, whether sailing in cruiser or dinghy, I shall remain myself. My sails are not puffed out with the north wind in my favour, nor am I beating into the southern gales of affliction.

Horace

#11. Probably is for good that I am wrong... let's bet on that as second floor.

Deyth Banger

#12. Big challenges are an accumulation of small challenges.

Anne Wojcicki

#13. Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

#14. I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

Virginia Woolf

#15. I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

Regina Spektor

#16. I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

Naomie Harris