Top 100 Was Happy Quotes
#1. I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
Mandy Moore
#2. As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble.
Octavia E. Butler
#3. But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know ... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
Waylon Jennings
#4. And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.
Charles Dickens
#5. She was happy I was home, I would come often, I would be company,
Edna O'Brien
#6. I was happy with her and I suspect I never knew her.Would I have been truly happy if I had actually known her?
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#7. I was happy when we were eventually fired, because I was convinced this Internet thing was a passing fad. This lack of technological foresight is why I am an actor.
Amy Poehler
#8. I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.
Stu Jackson
#9. I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#10. I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn't overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.
Julia Glass
#11. My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues.
Mavis Staples
#12. This is going to sound odd ... but a small part of me was happy, sitting with her there. I was thinking, now we've done everything together ... like the hard thing, as well as the fun things. We're an item, we're solid. We're together.
Kate Le Vann
#13. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.
Kate Chopin
#14. When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?
Tony Campolo
#15. A man shouldn't assume his wife was happy just because she didn't complain all the time. She had complained this morning. He'd spanked her for it. That didn't sit right somehow.
Starla Kaye
#16. I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'
Marlee Matlin
#17. He was happy with the questions of his days.
Colin McAdam
#18. So the storm passed and every one was happy.
Kate Chopin
#19. But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
Nathanael West
#20. He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it." The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy.
Ernest Hemingway,
#21. I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results.
Bruce Boxleitner
#22. Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.
Rachel Caine
#23. I was happy because I made enough money to give to my parents. I made enough money to get married on. I made enough money to enjoy myself a little more than I would have if I didn't have enough money.
Jack Kirby
#24. She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
Jane Austen
#25. Sometimes, when I tell folk my story, they ask why I did not run away from the pagans, why I did not escape southward into the lands where the Danes did not yet rule, but it never occurred to me to try. I was happy, I was alive, I was with Ragnar, and it was enough.
Bernard Cornwell
#26. With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.
Jon Secada
#27. On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.
Sharon Bolton
#28. He drew some relief from knowing that she was happy doing whatever the hell it was she did. Sometimes it seemed to him she was the only happy person he knew, and that frightened him so badly it made him want to curl up and die.
Arlene Hunt
#29. I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.
Morrissey
#30. I retired at twenty-nine, bought a life-time pass on American Airlines and my only goal in life was to party like a mad man and get drunk with as many people as possible. And I was happy right there. But when we started the streaming business, I knew it could be something big.
Mark Cuban
#31. I was happy before I met him. But I'm alive now, and those are not the same thing.
Nicola Yoon
#32. I learned that life, it's beautiful to be alive. I saw a lot of people dead there. When I got out of there, I was happy I was out, happy I was alive.
Ed Figueroa
#33. Her hot attire did not signify promiscuity - contrary to the consensual interpretation of the other male teachers - but a kind of nostalgia: this was what she used to wear when she was happy, when she used to live the normal
Aleksandar Hemon
#34. I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#35. It is the first shower that wets."
"Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart."
"Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't
Tom McNeal
#36. I was a sickly child, not very strong physically. I wasn't really the greatest in school. I didn't really excel in anything particularly. But I was happy with who I was.
Patti Smith
#37. He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.
Ayn Rand
#38. I was happy these two heifers were back speaking. I think it was because Capri's memory was shot and she forgot why she was actually mad at Camilla.
Myiesha
#39. She now knew that Raul's mouth wasn't just useful for charming the pants off a woman, but just as efficient in making sure a woman was happy she took her pants off to begin with.
Tiffany Patterson
#40. The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.
Alice Neel
#41. It was because you looked so happy. Oh, you'll agree with me now that I AM a hateful beast - to hate another woman just because she was happy, - and when her happiness didn't take anything from me! That
L.M. Montgomery
#42. In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
Boethius
#43. I was happy working for £6 an hour.
Amy Childs
#44. I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.
Jonny Greenwood
#45. It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
Ernest Hemingway,
#46. Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.
Stephen Graham
#47. George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.
Stephen Malkmus
#49. I wouldn't write a book to tell you that a vampire was happy.
Anne Rice
#50. Have you ever known anyone who was happy? And was still in his right mind, I mean ...
Charles M. Schulz
#51. Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.
David Rubenstein
#52. If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
Nana Mouskouri
#53. On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case ...
Mother Teresa
#54. Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ.
Tina Brown
#55. I was happy for nights at home, ordering in and comfort food -- for strong drinks on the porch and long talks in the kitchen.
Ann Benjamin
#56. I wanted to write two thousand words a day, and if I wrote a thousand words a day I was happy.
Neil Gaiman
#57. It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a habit that could become a barrier.
Robin McKinley
#58. He went up to his room and sat down at the desk to write the hardest note he'd ever written in his life. He tore up four attempts before he was happy with what he'd written. It was short and to the point.
"You mean everything to me."
I
Michelle Frost
#59. As he listened to them, Neil realised he was happy. It was such an unexpected and unfamiliar feeling he lost track of the conversation for a minute.
Nora Sakavic
#60. I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country [Italy]. Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.
Andrea Bocelli
#61. My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein
#62. Sometimes we talked the whole night long, as one does only in adolescence or very early in love. I was happy, but also I felt an anxiety that gnawed at me and for which I could find no cause, that gnawed at me more deeply precisely because I could find no cause.
Garth Greenwell
#63. I had no idea why a small swarm of spiders had decided to latch onto me, but as long as we were on friendly terms, I was happy to have them tag along.
Pippa DaCosta
#64. It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
Tara Lipinski
#65. My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language - I was happy that I could speak in English to my mum and the majority of people wouldn't understand it.
Lou Doillon
#66. She was happy. Her father had always told her to make sure and recognise that state when it arrived, and acknowledge it. 'It's like money in the bank, old girl', he would say ...
William Boyd
#67. He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that he was happy for a change.
Joe Queenan
#68. Music is my life. The last job I had, I was a bricklayer's apprentice. And I was happy with that job, too, because it was something that made me feel good. To build a wall for the side of a building felt really good to me.
Mark Wahlberg
#69. Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.
Olga Korbut
#70. I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.
Stephen Tobolowsky
#71. When I got to 40, I was happy. Now I can wear what I like, listen to what I like, don't have to try and be cool. I'm someone's dad and it doesn't matter any more. That's an enormous freedom.
John Simm
#72. I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I'm gonna miss being CEO and all that stuff. We had an atmosphere where everybody was happy. When people make money, they're happy.
Wayne Huizenga
#73. Living's immediacy, you go full sail, you're in a fever of motion. Until it's safe and past and done and dead and you can say, like waking from a dream, "Yes I was happy then, yes now it's all over I can see I was happy then." Maybe that's the advantage of dying?
Joyce Carol Oates
#74. What did the child-woman have to say except that she was happy to be living with Hubert--a big, pompous, grasping, scheming, conniving stud who used her at his will and shaped her affections and her tastes and in general raped her spirit.
M.F.K. Fisher
#75. When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
Andrea Bocelli
#76. I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.
Jacques Villeneuve
#77. Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.
Lisa Marie Presley
#78. She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.
Homer
#79. As long as Frank was well, I was happy,' he wrote in Memoirs. 'He had a gift for creating a life and, when he ceased to be alive, I couldn't create a life for myself.' And in a letter, written to Windham early in 1964: 'next to my work, Frankie was my life.
Olivia Laing
#80. She had taken the evidence that there was a time when I was happy and obliterated it, leaving only the memories.
Rebecca Donovan
#81. Not that she wanted to have sex with him, necessarily. Only that she was happy to acknowledge, on this late-summer evening, that he was a man and she a woman, and if he found her attractive, that was all right with her.
Anne Berest
#82. The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.
Richard Dreyfuss
#83. But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn.
"She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed.
"Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette.
Agatha Christie
#84. Six days later, the president named a postmaster for New Salem, Illinois, a twenty-four-year-old lawyer who had lost a race for the state legislature. He was a Clay man, but the post was hardly major, and Abraham Lincoln was happy to accept the appointment.
Jon Meacham
#85. Even when I was happy, I felt like I was always looking for the edges on life. The seams. I was so perfectly born to die.
Maggie Stiefvater
#86. She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.
Victoria Aveyard
#89. 'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
Carl Lewis
#90. We have photographed the trip we were supposed to have. The one where all any of us felt was happy, and the world was only beautiful, and all of the colors were the brightest versions of themselves.
Nina LaCour
#91. She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.
Carly Patterson
#92. I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about it.
Priyanka Chopra
#93. I got some pilot scripts and auditioned for a couple other ones, too. It was just a standard audition, where I kept going in to read and went up the ladder, in terms of people who you're performing for during those auditions. Each step of the way, I was happy with that level of audition.
Tim Kang
#94. Everybody was happy my brother was locked up. Not me because I know what it feels like to be in there. It ain't made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.
Adrien Broner
#95. As an idle mind either recalls its past or worries about its future, this Mr. Patil had sat indulged in his past. How beautiful his past life was, happy, lively and warm as the morning itself. It was a perfectly pictured cheerful life of a
farmer.
Ganesh Shiva Aithal
#96. What makes a person hate themselves?"
"Cowardice, perhaps. Or the eternal fear of being wrong, of not doing what others expect. A few moments ago I was happy, I forgot I was under the sentence of death; then when I remembered the situation I'm in, I felt frightened.
Paulo Coelho
#97. West stared at her as she trudged off up the hill after the Northmen, hardly able to believe his ears. She was happy to bed that stinking savage, but he was too angry? It was so unfair he almost choked on his rage.
Joe Abercrombie
#98. what I remember most of all is that I was happy - I no longer feared the school bell at the end of the day, I knew where I'd be living the next month, and no one's romantic decisions affected my life. And out of that happiness came so many of the opportunities I've had for the past twelve years.
J.D. Vance
#99. So long as I could see you every weekday, I was happy to love you from the sidelines.
Rachel Joyce
#100. With the book on my knee , i was happy ,i feared nothing except interruption.
Charlotte Bronte
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