Smiley Quotes

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. (Martin Seligman)
When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. View quote
George Carlin
Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them. View quote
Jo Brand
I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days. View quote
Aaron Huey
A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it. View quote
Nate Lowman
I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley. View quote
Sally Hawkins
There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion. View quote
Samantha Mumba
Garner: Before we get off the electoral process, they wanted me to run for Governor [of California] about 8 years ago--ahem--and I didn't want to do it. I wasn't gonna get in with that-- Tavis Smiley: Now you wish you had. Garner: No, no, no. Tavis Smiley: Hey, Arnold [Schwarzenegger] won. Garner: No. I think I could have won easy, but I don't think that they ought to have somebody like me or Schwarzenegger as Governor. It's no way to run a state. View quote
James Garner
The next wave of fascists will not come with cattle cars and concentration camps, but they'll come with a smiley face and maybe a TV show ... That's how the 21st-century fascists will essentially take over. View quote
Michael Moore
In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh. View quote
Billie Eilish
I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces. (Nikki Sixx)
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth. View quote
Richard Russo
It's no accident that so many fabled rock ensembles have had two contrasting leaders (Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Plant and Page, Bono and The Edge) to play off each other and cross-pollinate and, at times, butt heads. But Chris Martin completely dominates Coldplay; there's no yin to his smiley enraptured yang. He's the rock-king superstar the other band members all worship, humbly, as the genius who made their fates possible, and almost every moment of the band's creative energy is organized around what Chris is going to do next: the piano chords he's playing around with, the lyrics he's writing, his endless studio perfectionism. source. View quote
Chris Martin
I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went. View quote
America Ferrera
People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley. View quote
Serj Tankian
I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot. View quote
Charlotte Arnold
I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time. View quote
Emily Browning
Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction. View quote
Emma McLaughlin
The door swung open and Kate walked in. Her jeans and T-shirt were splattered with blood and she was carrying a severed vampire head. The T-shirt has a smiley face on it. View quote
Ilona Andrews
I like to have everything smiley and happy for my husband. Men don't want to see a grumpy face at the end of a hard day. View quote
Nita Ambani
Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is. (Steve Jurvetson)
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days. View quote
John le Carré
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.' View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
He moved away to the next picture. It was of a man with a fat smiley face and a red ribbon round him and a lot of medals. My great uncle Ambrose Fudge said Bernard carelessly. He looks a thourough ancester said Ethel kindly. Well he was said Bernard in a proud tone he was really the Sinister son of Queen Victoria. Not really cried Ethel in excited tones but what does that mean. Well I dont quite know said Bernard Clark it puzzles me very much but ancesters do turn quear at times. View quote
Daisy Ashford
Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter. View quote
Mario Testino