#joy

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience. ↗

— Michael Bay

#audience #critics #dark #done #four

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#any #bad #feel #guess #guilty

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing. ↗

— Martha Beck

#adding #appealing #becomes #joyful #keep

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#analyzer #bring #could #i #i am

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#pay #price #success #you

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#been #berry #buddy #buddy holly #chuck

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#bless #cheer #eat #enjoy #friends

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #awhile #birds #bring #come

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#fellow #give #greater #happiness #happy

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#both #enjoy #enjoy reading #experience #i