Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

George Bernard Shaw

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

Gena Showalter

It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything. Your laugh, your wit, your emotions and the way they change. Your courage, your sweetness, your near obsessive delight in cookies. Second, you are indeed a prize. You've made me want what no one else ever had. A communion of bodies." -Zacharel to Annabelle

Galway Kinnell

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

Galileo Galilei

My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

Galileo Galilei

Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

Brent Spiner

Sometimes I go off and er.....(laughs with people laughing in the background)...I er.......(laughs)......I may just go off now as a matter of fact.

Noah Hawley

Tension is all about, 'Why is this taking so long?' The interesting thing about that is that it's also the tension of comedy. The tension of drama and comedy is similar, and that's why usually you can get a big laugh in a really tense moment because people need that release.

Thom Yorke

I'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom Yorke? One is talented and the other is dead. **** you grandma

Andy Kennedy

We just kind of laughed it off and said here's another one.

Shaun Alexander

I've seen us go from a team that was 6-10 and people would be laughing at to a team that you have to respect.

What is the world without wit? We should live to love, love to laugh, and laugh to live!

Lorne Michaels

It's really important that we get out there and we laugh. We're not going to be overly sappy.

Jason Chaffetz

You tell people that the NFL is a nonprofit entity, and they just start laughing and giggling. But it's not fair.

These suits would be laughable if they were not so harmful,

This is a very outgoing team. We have to talk and laugh and have fun.

Frantz Fanon

I made up my mind to laugh myself to tears, but laughter had become impossible.

James Boswell

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Tiger Woods

If you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at?

Dar Williams

In the laughing times we know we are luckyIn the quiet times we know that we are blessedAnd we will not be alone.

Lewis Carroll

In the midst of the word he was trying to say / In the midst of his laughter and glee, / He had softly and suddenly vanished away - / For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.

Bryan Cranston

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

James Earl Jones

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

Jason Isaacs

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

Jared Leto

Learn to laugh at your problems, cause everybody else does.

Janet Fitch

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

Jane Pauley

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.

Ernst Mach

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

Ernest Dowson

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

Cassandra Clare

I imagine that it will not be easy to persuade Mortmain into a bonnet," Magnus observed. "Though the color would be fetching on him." Henry burst into laughter. "Very droll, Mr. Bane." "Please, call me Magnus." "I shall!

Carmen Electra

Laughing makes everything easier.

Jesse Eisenberg

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.