Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Reilly

It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.

Ralph Ellison

I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

Lily Tomlin

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

Lin Yutang

Even in despair, man must laugh.

Lenny Bruce

You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

Lenny Bruce

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Lenny Bruce

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

Lee Grant

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.

Laurie David

My favorite moments are when everyone is laughing.

L. Ron Hubbard

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

Thomas Aquinas

I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.

Thom Yorke

Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually I sing Fake Plastic Trees while he reams me from behind *Laughs* It wears me out *laughs*.

Thom Yorke

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

Terry Wogan

"I'm glad there's been so much laughter in the audience tonight." "But they're not laughing with you. They're laughing at you."

Terry Tempest Williams

Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.

Terry Goodkind

Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True wit never made us laugh.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

Selma Blair

I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?

Selma Blair

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

Shunryu Suzuki

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Sean O'Casey

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

Sean O'Casey

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

Sean O'Casey

Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

Leslie Charteris

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of God, men will awake presently and be men again, and colour and laughter and splendid living will return to a grey civilisation. But that will only come true because a few men will believe in it, and fight for it, and fight in its name against everything that sneers and snarls at that ideal.

Lesley Nicol

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.

Larry Charles

The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often I'm surprised at what an audience will or will not laugh at. I have to stay very, very open to an audiences first exposure to that material and how they react to it.

Larry David

Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any sense, but I'm being honest.