Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vidya Balan

Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my darling put his hand on the knot of my dress, I swear I remember nothing.

Viggo Mortensen

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

Victoria Abril

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

Victor Garber

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

Victor Hugo

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

Victor Hugo

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows. A burst of laughter starts from a scene of emotion. In a moment of buffoonery, the serious enters. Impulses depend on a chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign. A jest suffices to open the door to the unexpected. They are conferences with sharp turns, where the perspective suddenly changes. Chance is the director of these conversations.

Victor Hugo

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

Victor Hugo

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Victor Borge

Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.

Victor Borge

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Veronica Roth

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

Robert Benchley

All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

Rita Wilson

The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.

Rita Rudner

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

Rita Mae Brown

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

Rita Mae Brown

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

Rick Moody

God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?

Thomas de Quincey

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Thomas Browne

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Rupert Brooke

I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.

Rumi

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

Rumi

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

Rumi

No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.

Tom Robbins

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

Tom Lehrer

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

Tom Baker

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

Tom Baker

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

Todd Haynes

It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up to me and say that 'Far from Heaven' was exactly what it was like back then. [laughs] I was so disinterested in what it was 'really like' in the 1950s when I was putting the film together, I was only interested in what it was like in movies.

Steve Harvey

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.

Steve Allen

Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

Steve Allen

Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

Stephanie Beatriz

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

Viktor E. Frankl

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.