Quotes about laughter
laughter holiday glasses
For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses. Erma Bombeck
laughter thinking voice
...I remember thinking how often we look, but never see...we listen, but never hear...we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
laughter laughing cry
Laugh now, cry later.
laughter white people
I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I didn't do any White people. [laughter] I was shocked, because my mandate is to do Black studies. It would have never occurred to me if this lady hadn't written this letter. We decided we were going expand the brand and do everybody. Henry Louis Gates
laughter ideas solitude
We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. Henri Barbusse
laughter hands secret
On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed. Henri Bergson
laughter real secret
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
laughter intention neighbour
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
laughter philosophical echoes
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
laughter echoes mountain
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.
laughter becoming force
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
laughter humble vanity
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
laughter mouths amusing
Tessa, surprising herself, let out a gasp of laughter. Will looked at her, his mouth just beginning to quirk up in a grin. "I must be more amusing than I thought. Which would make me very amusing indeed. Cassandra Clare
laughter cat hair
There walked warlocks in all their bat-winged, cat-eyed glory, and here, as they swung out over the river, she saw the darting flash of multicolored tails under the silvery skin of the water, the shimmer of long, pearl-strewn hair, and heard the high, rippling laughter of the mermaids.
laughter party mean
It was Eric's voice not Simon's, on the recorded message. “Ladies, ladies ” he said. Though it was the millionth time she’d heard the recording, Clary couldn't help rolling her eyes. “If you've reached this message that means our boy Simon is out partying. But please don’t fight among yourselves. There’s always enough Simon to go around.” There was a muffled yell, some laughter, and then the long sound of the beep.
laughter men squares
In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter. Gore Vidal
laughter ties laughing
We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could. Gina Barreca
laughter groundhog-day laughing
Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a certain way. They make you laugh, and laughter is somehow an inferior emotion to tragedy. Harold Ramis
laughter stupid sometimes
Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all. Jamaica Kincaid
laughter sleep odds
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter. Immanuel Kant
laughter mean two
THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
laughter kissing blood
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her... It's never over, All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter... It's never over, She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever... Jeff Buckley
laughter book thinking
When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep! Georges Bernanos
laughter heart tired
We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes. George William Russell
laughter emotional analysis
The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge. Georges Bataille
laughter sacrifice dancing
The preceding criticism ... justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality.
laughter light laughing
Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life. Jean Paul
laughter humor thinking
When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight. Jerome Lawrence
laughter laughing ifs
If you can't laugh, you won't make it. Jennifer Love Hewitt
laughter ideas giving
Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have. Jean Houston
laughter knowing break
Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.
laughter appreciate people
It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way. Jackie Gleason