#smile

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#am #bragging #came #come #funeral

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#arena #away #beginning #being #compromised

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#damn #keep #like #show #show business

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in. ↗

— Joshua Homme

#dark #deliver #face #going #kick

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#matters #may #melancholy #smile #these

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civilization #derived #divine #grace #human

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#joy #laughter #much #smile #tears

Colors are the smiles of nature. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#colors #nature #smiles

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. ↗

— Janis Ian

#clear #high #high school #i #learned

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#beautiful #gift #kindness #love #smile