Nell Carter Quotes

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

Money never made me.

Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music.

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.

A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.

Having money hasn't made me any happier. There are some negatives associated with it too, like having to be away from home when you don't want to be.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.