Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brinkley

Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don't have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Ben Stiller

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

Beatrice Lillie

In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.

Audrey Hepburn

I love people who make me laugh!

Audre Lorde

I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

Diablo Cody

That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

Denis Norden

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

Denis Norden

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Denise Levertov

Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but only because we are here. When we go, he goes with us to be your hands that never do violence, your eyes that wonder, your lives that daily praise life by living it, by laughter. He is never alone here, never cold in the field of graves.

Denis Leary

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh.

Diana Gabaldon

This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.

Diana Gabaldon

Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?

Dennis Lehane

Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish,” Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.

Dennis Miller

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

Dennis Miller

There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.

Deepak Chopra

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

Deepak Chopra

Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

Eben Alexander

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Ed Helms

That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.

Bertolt Brecht

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Bertolt Brecht

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

Bertolt Brecht

He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news.

Bernard Cornwell

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

Cecily von Ziegesar

Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it. They chose each other. Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked in celebration . In the night air , Nate thought he could hear Serena and Blairs' laughter, though he knew that was impossible; they were too far away by now. But as we know, in this city anything is possible

Carol Vorderman

I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.

Carol Vorderman

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

Carlos Mencia

If you aren't laughing, you aren't living!

Agnes Repplier

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Agnes Repplier

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

Agnes Repplier

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

Agnes Repplier

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Agnes Repplier

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

Alan King

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.