If you were to say to me that I couldn’t paint, I would write. If I couldn’t write, I would be a set designer. As long as I’m creating something, I’m happy. – Grace Slick
I’ve always felt happy in my own company. It’s only when I get around other people that things get sticky. – Helen Oyeyemi
My label, my genre, my everything is happy sad – I do a smiley face with eyes on both sides. So basically to me, it’s totally okay to be happy and sad at the same time, it’s totally okay just to be sad, it’s totally okay to be happy. – Gnash
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. – George Bernard Shaw A Treatise on Parents and Children.
Both my parents, grandmother and all close relatives who met Diana liked her very much, and my parents and grandmother never objected to our relationship. They were very much happy for us to make a decision ourselves and made it clear they would support it 100 per cent. We both had their blessing. – Hasnat Khan
It doesn’t have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren’t as happy in that skin. – Harry Melling
We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don’t care who does that astonishing. – Harold Prince
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. – Guillaume Apollinaire
I didn’t know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. – Greta Gerwig
At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can’t say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake. – Goran Ivanisevic
I am so happy that I didn’t have children. Well, you know, because I’ve had freedom. And I’ve so loved my freedom. – Helen Mirren
I think I’m happy with who I am. I don’t know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general. – Hilary Duff
To have a film where there’s an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that’s one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it’s not very pleasant to draw evil figures. – Hayao Miyazaki
Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it’s not a creative expression and that’s something I need to be happy. – Genie Francis
Most of my actor friends don’t believe it’s possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away. – Genie Francis
My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I’m happy with what I’ve done for Singapore. – Goh Chok Tong
To be honest, I rewrote ‘Wicked Nights’ a number of times. I just wasn’t happy with the end result. – Gena Showalter
What I have found is that my fan base will follow me to whatever I’m doing. They gave me a big tune-in for Hallmark. They were just happy to see me working again, and my job is not to disappoint them, not to cheat them. – Genie Francis
Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don’t want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey. – Gideon Raff
With the millions of listeners to ‘Coast to Coast AM,’ I get constant feedback from people who are not happy with the current candidates. Maybe I will run for president in 2012. – George Noory
I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn’t happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn’t have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come. – Harbhajan Singh
I can’t stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they’re not happy with the choices they’ve made. – Hillary Clinton