Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilynne Robinson

It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it . . . so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.

Edie Falco

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

Jonathan Groff

I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience, but when you're trying to create a suspension of disbelief it's much harder to do in front of audience because they become a partner. Moreso than that, they become in charge of the timing. From the simple, mechanical fact that you have to hold for their laughter. The actual timing of the scene is in the hands of the audience. As a control freak, I don't enjoy that as much as the ability to be able to control it in an edit room.

Jonathan Davis

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Jon McGregor

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

Katey Sagal

When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.

Renee Zellweger

I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.

Ryan Lochte

That's the quickest way to my heart: Laughter.

Russell Baker

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

Umberto Eco

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

Umberto Eco

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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

Reinhold Niebuhr

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Rhonda Byrne

Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.

Oscar Hammerstein II

The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.

P. C. Cast

They're Twin-like," Shaunee said. "Hilarious," Erin agreed. "Shut up!" Aphrodite and Stevie Rae said together, which made the Twins convulse into laughter.

Paul McCartney

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

Mel Brooks

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

Mel Brooks

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.

Mary Oliver

Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm half crazy with the wonder of it--the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise.

Martin Amis

Laughter always forgives.

Martin Amis

Amis is acutely, vibrantly sensitive to the different registers of laughter. He knows that it can be the most affirming and uniquely human sound, and also the most sinister and animalistic one. He understands every note of every octave that separates the liberating shout of mirth from the cackle of a bully or the snigger of a sadist.

Pierre Beaumarchais

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.

Pierre Beaumarchais

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Peter McWilliams

Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

Peter McWilliams

Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.