Smiling Quotes
1487 Smiling quotes by 880 unique authors
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How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to…
— Lewis Carroll
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Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do…
— Richelle Mead
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A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling,…
— Sherwood Smith
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I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said…
— James Joyce
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There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever…
— Natsuki Takaya
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What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
— Jon Krakauer
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Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that…
— Og Mandino
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Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They…
— Ray Bradbury
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Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman…
— Dean Koontz
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Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
— Markus Zusak
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Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's…
— Chuck Klosterman
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She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of…
— Rosamunde Pilcher
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I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can hold on to…
— Charlaine Harris
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We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We…
— Anchee Min
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When they separated, the freckleless spot between Pete's eyes was bright red. Before anything else could be said or done, May grabbed her bike and…
— Maureen Johnson
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With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is probably as bad…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking…
— George Saunders
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest…
— J D Salinger
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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through…
— Isabel Allende
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