Quotes about laugh
laughter drama character
The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive. Vanessa Redgrave
laughter faces problem
If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue. Vaclav Havel
laughing long revolution
Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies. Suzanne Collins
laughing guy leaving
Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?" I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell Suzanne Collins
laughter work expression
Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter. Scott Westerfeld
laughing people microphones
My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience. Steven Weber
laughter years singing
Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears. Steven Tyler
laughter laughing ready
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. Robert Burns
laughter please-me laughing
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration. Robert Burns
laughing plans
I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans. Robbie Williams
laughter symphony may
Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation. Richard Steele
laughter men laughing
It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world. Richard Steele
laughing lifetime
I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh. Richard Simmons
laughter sadness unhappy
Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Red Skelton
laughing shining gold
Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside. Sammy Davis, Jr.
laughing existence tragic
If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence. T. J. Miller
laughter laughed irresponsible
He laughed like an irresponsible foetus. T. S. Eliot
laughter
His laughter tinkled among the teacups. T. S. Eliot
laughter blessed men
God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter. Sydney J. Harris
laughter expression bully
With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter. Sylvester Stallone
laughing people cry
It's better to make people laugh than cry. Ronnie Barker
laughing lovely teeth
No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth? Ronaldinho
laughing trying guilt
There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.
laughter flesh weakness
But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh. Umberto Eco
laughter pain love-is
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond. Umberto Eco
laughing people guy
I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh. Tyler Perry
laughing hospitals
No one laughs at God in a hospital, Regina Spektor
laughing dying trying
This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath. Regina Spektor
laughing
No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God. Regina Spektor
laughter prayer facts
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith. Reinhold Niebuhr
laughter
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Reinhold Niebuhr
laughter men laughing
All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh. Reinhold Niebuhr
laughter men healthy
What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent. Reinhold Niebuhr