Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patton Oswalt

Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the 'Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway.'

Mel Brooks

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Mel Brooks

Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.

Mel Brooks

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

Mel Brooks

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

Rachael Ray

You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do.

Rachel Caine

Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.

Rachel Caine

..."I can always stuff you back in the bottle and shove a tampon in the top instead of a stopper, and all the other Djinn will point and laugh-

Peter Ackroyd

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

Paulo Coelho

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

Quintilian

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Quentin Tarantino

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

Natsuki Takaya

Sometimes living can be hard, but it's only because we're alive that we can make each other laugh,cry...be happy! In this world, if that's not a reason for being born in this world...I don't know what is!

Mother Teresa

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

Mother Teresa

Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

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.

Veronica Roth

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

Rita Wilson

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

Rita Rudner

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

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

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.

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.

Walt Whitman

There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

Walt Whitman

I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.

Walt Whitman

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

Sandra Bullock

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

Roseanne Barr

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

Roseanne Barr

Laugh every day as much as you can.

Roger Ebert

We laugh, that we may not cry,

Robin McKinley

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.