Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Quinn

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Evan Goldberg

'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.

Anne Lamott

You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.

Anne Lamott

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness

Anne Lamott

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Albert Brooks

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

Albert Brooks

I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.

Albert Camus

I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.

Amanda Palmer

I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

D. H. Lawrence

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

D. H. Lawrence

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

Clifton Collins, Jr.

Comedy is great; you get to laugh! Life is so serious.

Clare Balding

I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.

Clarence Darrow

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

David Archuleta

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

Don McLean

I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

Dylan Thomas

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

Doug Stanhope

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

Doug Stanhope

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

Dorothy Allison

Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.

Donna Tartt

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

Claude Chabrol

Films with a message just make me laugh.

Daniel Radcliffe

Sometimes you can't help but pay attention to what is written about you. You are trying not to because it's generally not constructive, it can be very funny, in which case it's fine to pay attention to it if you're going to laugh about it. But if it's going to get you angry then it's a pretty pointless waste of energy, so I try and be selective about what I take an interest in about myself.

Daniel Clowes

But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!

Dan Jenkins

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

Courteney Cox

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

Courteney Cox

Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.

Dylan Moran

I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.

e. e. cummings

Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.

Amy Davis

Happiness, laughter and joy abound, when friends, family, and lovers are around.

Anais Nin

If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.

Anais Nin

I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.

Alton Brown

Laughing brains are more absorbent.