Sunshine Quotes

1. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

2. “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”

3. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

4. “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”

5. “Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”

6. “A good laugh is sunshine in the house.”

7. “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

8. “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

9. “Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”

10. “If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.”

11. “The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”

12. “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.”

13. “Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.”

14. “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”

15. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”

16. “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”

17. “I'm continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature's greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people's faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.”

18. “Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.”

19. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”

20. “Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.”

21. “Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”

22. “Sunshine is supposed to make you happy.”

23. “Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.”

24. “It's never easy to lose. But life is not all sunshine and roses.”

25. “Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.”

26. “I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.”

27. “Friends are the sunshine of life.”

28. “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

29. “A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”

30. “Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.”

31. “But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

32. “Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.”

33. “I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.”

34. “I'm 100 percent sunshine.”

35. “Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.”

36. “You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That's pretty much how it goes.”

37. “Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat.”

38. “Everyone has a dark cloud hovering over them at some point, but then there is sunshine.”

39. “'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me.”

40. “If I can be somewhere with sunshine and have bare feet and a book, I'm happy.”

41. “The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.”

42. “It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.”

43. “We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right, no matter what others may say. And sometimes, if that means taking a lonely road, if what we are standing for is true, then perhaps moonlight or sunshine will light our way and make it less lonely.”

44. “There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free.”

45. “If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.”

46. “Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, It's not warm when she's away, Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, And she's always gone too long, Anytime she goes away.”

47. “Everybody loves a picnic in the sunshine. It was always so magical when we were kids.”

48. “You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.”

49. “My kids are my No. 1 priority. They're the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.”

50. “I am sure it will connect with the masses. 'Good Morning Sunshine' has beautiful script, great actors and a very sensitive director, Sanjoy Nag.”

51. “I feel there's a halo around me, a constant sunshine wherever I go.”

52. “False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.”

53. “Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.”

54. “My favorite movies are 'The Notebook,' 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,' and 'Wolf Children.'”

55. “It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.”

56. “Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.”

57. “The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.”

58. “He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.”

59. “I know it's a cliche, but the sun makes me happy. When you can feel the sunshine on you, you feel better, happier, and naturally, every human being needs the sun.”

60. “The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.”

61. “My husband and I met on OKCupid. We went out on our little coffee date, and I knew right away he was my husband. He's a handsome, smarty-pants architect from Tokyo. On our first date, I said, 'I wake up like this. I'm Pollyanna Sunshine, and I'm not for everyone'.”

62. “I love hanging out with my family in the warm sunshine more than anything.”

63. “I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.”

64. “My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.”

65. “All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.”

66. “My favourite movie of all-time is 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.' I love Kate Winslet.”

67. “I get a little ray of sunshine every single day I go to work and that's a blessing in itself.”

68. “Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.”

69. “The outdoors, exercise, sunshine, and fresh air are all good for people's immune systems and health, and not so great for viruses.”

70. “What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?”

71. “I'm very careful in the sunshine.”

72. “I find day after day of sunshine boring.”

73. “I live in Cape Town but my favourite holiday destination is Hermanus, a little seaside town about a 90-minute drive away, over the pass and down to the sea, on the sunshine coast. It's where I love to escape to with my wife for a weekend every now and again.”

74. “There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.”

75. “'Sunshine Superman' was a pioneering work that for the first time presented a fusion of Celtic, jazz, folk, rock, and Indian music as well as poetry.”

76. “Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.”

77. “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

78. “God is so kind, he has given so much sunshine to India.”

79. “L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.”

80. “Mozart is sweet sunshine.”

81. “You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.”

82. “Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.”

83. “When I was doing 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' I was asked, 'If there was one part of your life that you could erase, what would it be?' And I was so stunned by that. I thought: 'Nothing.' I would keep all the good bits and the bad bits, because those things made me who I am.”

84. “A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.”

85. “I think if you're not strong, in life or in football, not every day is going to be going up and seeing the sunshine.”

86. “I watched my mother be one of the most vibrant, happy women every day. She loved to smile, all the time. She was a smile; she was pure sunshine. And with ALS in her last few months of her life, she lost her ability to smile.”

87. “The best Chateauneuf-du-Papes are among the most natural expressions of grapes, place and vintage. Chateauneuf-du-Pape vineyards are farmed organically or biodynamically, and the region's abundant sunshine and frequent wind (called 'le mistral') practically preclude the need for treating the fields with herbicides or pesticides.”

88. “Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.”

89. “Everybody goes and sees 'Fantastic Four,' but nobody sees 'Sunshine.' I'd have a different career if people saw that.”

90. “His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”

91. “Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in a gloomy world. I remember going through a rough spot in my life and turning on 'Flower' for a little break in the day. You fly through luscious landscapes collecting petals and painting the world with life.”

92. “When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'”

93. “To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.”

94. “I hate sunshine so much. I can only cope with it when it's bitterly, bitterly cold.”

95. “There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.”

96. “When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.”

97. “There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”

98. “Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.”

99. “As a Californian, I feel lucky to live in what is truly the Golden State - a place of sunshine, agricultural bounty, natural beauty, technological innovation, and boundless optimism.”

100. “Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.”

101. “Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.”

102. “Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.”

103. “I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.”

104. “The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.”

105. “People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'”

106. “The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.”

107. “Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'… Linda's the muse.”

108. “Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.”

109. “Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.”

110. “I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'”

111. “Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.”

112. “The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.”

113. “Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.”

114. “I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.”

115. “Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.”

116. “Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.”

117. “I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.”

118. “NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.”

119. “Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.”

120. “Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.”

121. “It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.”

122. “An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.”

123. “'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.”

124. “Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.”

125. “When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.”

126. “When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.”

127. “There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.”

128. “I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.”

129. “If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.”

130. “I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.”

131. “I work much better in sunshine. It's drizzle and grayness that I don't like.”

132. “It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.”

133. “People say you can get bored of the sunshine in L.A. No, you can't.”

134. “I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don't have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character.”

135. “I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.”

136. “I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.”

137. “In every life, there have to be some shadows. Look at me. My life has been filled with sunshine. A beautiful and caring wife. Five healthy children. I got to do what I loved. How many people are that lucky?”

138. “There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.”

139. “My best actress of all time is Kate Winslet. I want to be just like her. 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is one of my favourite films.”

140. “There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.”

141. “Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.”

142. “A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.”

143. “I love the beach, and I love sunshine.”

144. “I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.”

145. “I lived in Portland for almost 20 years, and that's where my eldest daughter went to college. I missed the sunshine. I grew up in L.A.”

146. “I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.”

147. “I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever.”

148. “I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' He's a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable.”

149. “When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually brought a bit of sunshine to my day. I was thinking: fat suit. I was thinking: shaving my head. It was so outlandish, such a crazy idea.”

150. “'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.”

151. “At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five cardio intervals thrown into the mix. I put a lot of emphasis on core strength and flexibility training. I also do a lot of running in my free time. Anytime I can move my cardio outside in the sunshine, I do.”

152. “I enjoyed L.A. because it was nice to be in the sunshine and live in a house with proper wardrobes. I loved the space.”

153. “I would love to do a small indie comedy, like a Wes Anderson movie or, like, an ensemble comedy like 'The Royal Tenenbaums' or 'Little Miss Sunshine.' I like comedies like that, that have a lot of heart and are about family dynamics.”

154. “All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.”

155. “Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.”

156. “I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevices. I don't like sand at all. I don't enjoy all that sunshine and heat without the benefit of climate control.”

157. “The tenor voice should be like sunshine.”

158. “We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise.”

159. “What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.”

160. “In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.”

161. “Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.”

162. “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.”

163. “It is publication week for my new novel 'The Sunshine Cruise Company.' Go me! Anyway, I may as well get the shameless plug over with right away - buy it. You'll like it. It's about a bunch of old ladies who rob a bank.”

164. “Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.”

165. “The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'… 'Little Miss Sunshine'… 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?”

166. “I remember when I saw 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,' I wanted to go out and direct a movie right there on the streets of Manhattan. Unfortunately, you can't without permits.”

167. “It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness.”

168. “I hate bacon. And sunshine, as my friends like to point out.”

169. “For me, there is no greater sunshine in politics or in life than to have a job, security for your family, a good school place where you know your child is going, and the sense that if I put in, there will be a decent, secure retirement at the end of it all.”

170. “In order to institute action, it is not sufficient that the individual man have unachieved ends that he would like to fulfill. He must also expect that certain modes of behavior will enable him to attain his ends. A man may have a desire for sunshine, but if he realizes that he can do nothing to achieve it, he does not act on this desire.”

171. “I grew up listening to pop music with my dad in the car, and we'd just listen to Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Earth Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band - all that good stuff. So to see it snaking its way back around again is really exciting, and I love listening to the radio.”

172. “King Charles, who was also the Holy Roman Emperor, lived and worked in hard bare rooms with no carpets, crowding to the fire in winter, using the window's sunshine in summer.”

173. “Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.”

174. “Business, unfortunately, isn't all sunshine and lollipops.”

175. “This country is in a crisis. And if you're fighting to save this country, if you're fighting to take this country back, it's not going to be sunshine and patriots. It's going to be people who want to fight. I mean, Andrew Breitbart was all about the fight.”

176. “I feel so at home on the stage, and I love making people happy with my music. Whatever I have to go through to make that happen and get that sunshine is worth it.”

177. “The advantage of knowing about risks is that we can change our behavior to avoid them. Of course, it is easily observed that to avoid all risks would be impossible; it might entail no flying, no driving, no walking, eating and drinking only healthy foods, and never being touched by sunshine. Even a bath could be dangerous.”

178. “One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.'”

179. “Coming in, I wanted to be a great player, and right now at the beginning of my career, I'm showing some slight sunshine that I can be the player I want.”

180. “Until I was about 13, somehow I managed to assume that everyone reacted to everything just about as I did. I took it for granted that everyone shared my passion for overcast skies. It came as quite a shock when I discovered that there were actually people who preferred sunshine.”

181. “As much as I love to portray a character, I also love portraying a more natural, elegant persona - particularly when I get to enjoy the sunshine in comfy, elegant clothes.”

182. “Everyone here seems to appreciate the sunshine way more than we do in California. We tend to take it for granted, but in Chicago, it's like Woodstock love every time it gets above 70 degrees.”

183. “Hyeon means sunshine. Seo means good fortune. I chose it so that I would live my life in light and warmth and not return to the shadow.”

184. “One of the most bitter complaints of craft brewers is that big beer wins consumers by introducing beers whose names resemble the names of actual independent beers. After New Belgium came out with a popular beer called Sunshine Wheat, MillerCoors, through its Leinenkugel brand, came out with a beer called Sunset Wheat.”

185. “I'm not the kind of writer that goes, 'I'm gonna write a song about sunshine,' or, 'I've just heard a phrase, so I'm gonna write that,' and then I write a song. I'll wait for inspiration to hit, and you can't depend on it.”

186. “My background is in art. I was a painter and an occasional sculptor, and I really like materials - you know, stuff. Physical objects. The world and the trees and the sunshine and the flowers. And all of that doesn't seem to really exist out in the ether of the Internet.”

187. “I already had top 10 records before 'Sunshine Superman,' with 'Catch the Wind' and 'Colors,' but this was a real breakthrough for me. It was a consciousness change for songwriting, as people are now saying I initiated the psychedelic revolution with this album, 'Sunshine Superman.'”

188. “On the outskirts of the desert in Yemen, there was a cafe with a jukebox that had 'Sunshine Superman' on it. I loved that.”

189. “Just the whole thing of getting up in the morning - I love the sunshine, I love the palm trees. I'm that kind of guy. I like to drive around with the top down and just enjoy life. I never did that before, so it's a beautiful thing.”

190. “I've had my day in the sunshine with wrestling.”

191. “I always associate blonde with sunshine and puppies and happiness, but I don't think sexiness.”

192. “For a nation that spends a lot of time talking about the weather, we don't seem to realise just how much sunshine we actually get. Maybe that's because we tend to concentrate on the negative aspects.”

193. “I've turned down all sorts of good things accidentally, too. I read the script for 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' and thought, 'This makes no sense.' Then I went to the cinema to see it. Well, what an idiot.”

194. “I feel like I was kind of raised to be mechanical, like, 'Hi, I'm Brooke Hogan. I'm Hulk Hogan's daughter. I like cookies and sunshine.'”

195. “Sydney is the most amazing city. The food and the beautiful beaches are fantastic, and all that surf and sunshine make you feel unbelievably relaxed.”

196. “Football is not only sunshine.”

197. “I just try to fight for the underdog, and try to fight for those who are locked out of the sunshine of opportunity.”

198. “I loved being at sea: the sights, the sounds, the food, the sunshine, the people, and the work.”

199. “There's a lot going on music-wise in L.A. It's a wicked place to wake up, there's sunshine, you go to the studio, see all these really talented producers.”

200. “I know I live in the shadow of the greatest drummer in the world, so it's nice to have a bit of sunshine now and again.”

201. “Things aren't always full of sunshine, there has to be friction at times as well.”

202. “The Beach Boys set the bar for pop sunshine more than 40 years ago, and the genre hasn't changed that much since. Surfer Blood's 'Floating Vibes' rounds the usual bases with an upbeat attitude, and the string swells closing the track are a must, but the band manages to infuse all those old sounds with fresh energy.”

203. “Solar energy is clean, renewable and easy to harvest - and Nevada is blessed to have no shortage of sunshine.”

204. “I don't want my kids to live like I do, sweating in a little metal box. I want them to have sunshine. I want them to have light.”

205. “I like Palm Springs because of the sunshine. It's a little city surrounded by mountains.”

206. “We thought L.A. would just be sunshine and happiness all around.”

207. “Qawaali is the art, that's in my soul. It's the ground. Everything else is a passing season - wind, rain, sunshine.”

208. “Just living is not enough, one must have sunshine too. And one can achieve that only when we make sure that our workplace is friendly and mentally fit for us.”

209. “Would I love to go and get out of here and have a couple of months preparing, I don't know, anywhere in sunshine? Yes. But I think while I'm under employment with Chelsea, I think to talk about another job, even if it was short-term, and I haven't been asked, I think it is so disrespectful.”

210. “My dad will sit out in the last tiny corner of the garden that has sunshine until the millisecond the final vestige has gone! As kids we were encouraged to head out of the front door at daybreak, and not come back till we were tired and hungry.”

211. “The day you feel like you don't have anything to prove, it's better you go to the beach and stay there and take in the sunshine.”

212. “I like being able to sit and be outside in the sunshine with our dog.”

213. “The Caribbean has had a big impact on me. It's very outdoorsy, people don't really spend a lot of time indoors. There's so much light and sunshine.”

214. “Our role as a government is to bring this new technology into the proverbial sunshine so it becomes more accessible, more predictable and more productive for those who choose to participate.”

215. “I can't say what she did was bad, because she did the best she could, but Mum's input was more to do with survival and I didn't really receive any affection. But although I only remember sunshine growing up on the council estate, I never wanted to show my vulnerability because I was told that would make you a victim.”

216. “I had a taste of the Hollywood experience doing 'Primary Colors.' Constant sunshine, your own chauffeur, drop-top BMW, the life of a 'major motion-picture star.' Then I came home and did no paid work for a year.”

217. “Seeing the struggles of being a WWE Superstar, it's definitely a blessed life, but it's still not all rainbows and sunshine.”

218. “I'm just a silly, sunshine girl with voices.”

219. “Exercise, the outdoors, and sunshine are essential, not just as luxuries but as ways to sustain population health and resilience.”

220. “It's a throwback song from the '90s, but that song 'Steal My Sunshine' by Len is so good. I have that on a mix that I play whenever I just want to feel bright and happy.”

221. “Tabassum was a wonderful lady, full of fun and sunshine. She lived up to her name and was always smiling.”