I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
Often the people with the biggest smiles can be struggling the most.
Hey, I love seeing the smiles of my teammates when they score.
If I laugh a couple of times a day, I’m doing good. People think it’s their God-given right to be happy, and it’s just not. It’s something you’ve got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.
I see all that celebrity stuff now as whatever, man. What’s more important is that everyday people are liking my music, it’s got to that stage. I’ve worked really hard for a long time for it to come to this point, where I’m putting smiles on people’s faces, and I’m loving it.
One of my most memorable moments serving the community was after I built the Live Civil Playground in Haiti, and I visited an orphanage and gave away shoes to all the kids. I also sat with them and helped them design their shoes. The smiles on their faces were priceless.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
My definition for ‘playback’ is being able to create a musical moment for people to have smiles and weep for joy.
When I started playing in Sweden, there was nobody watching. No one knew who I was, so I was just playing for the love of the game. And after my first season, my coach came up to me and said, ‘Of all the people you’re the one who smiles the most on the field,’ and that was the biggest compliment I ever received.
After the smoke clears, I think people will say, ‘You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here. I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears.
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Yes, I’m the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
I think the first time baby recognises me and smiles is going to be one of the most amazing times of my life, to be honest.
Walking out of that curtain and watching the reaction of the crowd, who may cheer for or boo you, is a kick. It’s addictive and helps us put smiles on children’s faces by being huge role models for young girls and boys.
Working with Janhvi is great. She has the best energy on set. She brings smiles on people’s faces. She is very dedicated and sincere.
Most smiles are started by another smile.
There is something about growing up in the Midwest that gives a different kind of sensibility. But if I’m feeling insecure, the smiles and politeness get upped a notch, and maybe that isn’t totally reflective of how I’m feeling on the inside.
If somebody smiles at me on the street, I’m like, ‘Hi, have a nice day!’
I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
I’m not here to put bruises on people’s backs or to send them to the hospital. I’m here to put smiles on people’s faces.
I’m going to be someone who smiles and brings joy to the locker room and to the field.
I’ve been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nice and pleased to see you – which is so different from London. Maybe I’ll end up so tired of smiles and helpfulness that I’ll long for the rudeness and cynicism of home.
I think all the business stuff – the promotion, the hype, the high-power lunches, and the permanently injected smiles – is boring.
I love having fun and make people laugh. And that’s my quality, which has been blessed by God and I love doing it, bringing smiles on the face of people.
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles – but much more so when he laughs – it adds something to this fragment of life.
Well, conventions are so cool, because I just feel like I’m giving out smiles all day, it’s so fun, and you get people who are hysterically crying.
I have so far played a variety of roles and enjoyed all of them. But I am biased towards positive roles because I love staying peaceful and bringing smiles on people’s faces.
I wanted to take advantage of my platform as an NBA player to bring smiles, and also to raise money for social causes.
Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me – they are pleased to see Doctor Who, who’s far more exciting than I am.
I had this tic where I touch my mouth to my knee, and I’m always screwing up my back. I’ve had two shoulder surgeries. My doctor just smiles and laughs at me.
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables – my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d’s fawned over him.
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