Top 33 Lighthearted Quotes

There’s nothing pretty about competitive eating. It might be uncouth, but it is fun, and it is lighthearted.

When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I’m not really into serious programmes or documentaries.

It’s not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don’t know anybody, to leave a place where you’ve had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That’s quite a big decision to make.

I’ve always tended to write comedy, but I’d hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy.

The first article carrying Vonnegut’s byline, ‘This Business of Whistle Purchasing,’ a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you’re doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I’ve worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.

Bruce was famous, but not ‘Elvis famous.’ He was confident and lighthearted. Comfortable in his own skin. Or so it seemed.

Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it’s more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it’s a very powerful combination.

I’m from the suburbs and where I’m from didn’t necessarily have people like you see in ‘Suburgatory,’ but along those lines and I think people will laugh at themselves. And it’s lighthearted.

I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can’t control it.

I feel like an ‘8 Mile’ Eminem compared to ‘My Name is.’ Whenever my name is brought up, it’s in a ‘Slim Shady’ way, and it’s funny, and I’m lighthearted, but at the same time, every once in a while, I like to take it seriously.

Daddy was fun-loving and lighthearted – he lived life to the fullest and was not scared to take a risk.

The truth is, I’m pretty lighthearted.

I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I’ve noticed over the years that there doesn’t tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

The thing is, acting is supposed to be fun – maybe not always in a way that’s lighthearted, but always in a way that’s satisfying.

Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.

What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny… Oh my God – this is so offensive.

I don’t think I’m morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn’t appeal to me, and I don’t read it. I think I’m a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it’s kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there’s nothing funny or lighthearted.

I think that 99 percent of the time, I’m jocular, lighthearted.

It’s a friendly act to write a lighthearted book.

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don’t mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

I liked that Garrett could be lighthearted and laugh about the future about being a dad and having the minivan.

Who says a lighthearted approach to business is incompatible with success?

There’s a freshness to the approach of teen chefs. They’re lighthearted, and they’re not afraid to take risks.

‘Material’ is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that’s in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don’t need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.

I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, ‘I’m lighthearted today, I’m gonna do this.’

I’m known for being silly and fun and lighthearted.

I wanted a song my 6-year-old niece could listen to in the car. ‘Everyday is Christmas’ sounds like a sweet sentiment, but in reality if every day were actually Christmas it would be a candy cane-riddled hellscape from which the human race could never awaken. So we’re lucky it is just a lighthearted Christmas tune.

It’s funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they’re easier emotions for me to connect with.

I’m excited to see a new age of rom-coms, and especially teen romantic comedies, because when I was younger, I was watching ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Hunger Games’ and stuff like that. I loved those movies, but they are a little bit heavy. We didn’t really get to have the lighthearted love stories.

The lighthearted moments of ‘Girls’ are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.