Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Charles Spurgeon

An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

Diane Johnson

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

Democritus

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

Elbert Hubbard

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Eileen Caddy

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Edward Abbey

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Earl Nightingale

There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

Deepak Chopra

The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world.

Dennis Prager

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

Jack Randorff

If we have echoes, those echoes step on top of the spoken word, and then you can't understand it. And if you can't understand the words here, there's no reason for a convention.

Neil Turok

If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.

Charles Dickens

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

Alan Parsons

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

Alan Moore

In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

Charles Baudelaire

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

The old echoes are long in dying.

Aimee Bender

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

Diane Lane

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Diane Lane

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

Edgar Allan Poe

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Peter Tolan

I did a scene and he started laughing and said he'd seen everything he needed to see.

David Nicholls

A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

Abraham Lincoln

Too big to cry too young to laugh...

Ryan Gosling

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

William Shakespeare

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.