Laughter Quotes - page 25

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter. (Soleil Moon Frye)
I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending. View quote
Tom Hooper
What is life without laughter? View quote
Trenton Lee Stewart
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. View quote
Yakov Smirnoff
My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears. View quote
Yelawolf
The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy. View quote
Siobhan Dowd
Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. View quote
Matt Haig
Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter. View quote
Vera Nazarian
I believe that when people try to live their life at the fullest, there's a certain laughter that comes out of it. The more they try to live their life seriously, the funnier it is. View quote
Takashi Miike
Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. View quote
Mel Brooks
I miss only, and then only a little, in the late afternoon, the sudden white laughter that like heat lightning bursts in an atmosphere where souls are trying to serve the impossible. (John Updike)
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.They are not long, the days of wine and roses; Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream. View quote
Ernest Dowson
Whether I have too little sense to see, or too much to be imposed upon; whether I have too much or too little pride, or of anything else, I leave out of the question; but certain it is, that what is called monarchy, always appears to me a silly, contemptible thing. I compare it to something kept behind a curtain, about which there is a great deal of bustle and fuss, and a wonderful air of seeming solemnity; but when, by any accident, the curtain happens to be open - and the company see what it is, they burst into laughter. View quote
Thomas Paine
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
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. View quote
Umberto Eco
That's all the glory my heart is after, Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous. View quote
François Rabelais
But ere the laughter died from out the rear, Anger in front saw profanation near; Jubal was but a name in each man's faith For glorious power untouched by that slow death Which creeps with creeping time. View quote
George Eliot
Huebner observes that my use of laugher is my attempt to practice theology in a manner that refuses the attempt to manage the world. In short, my use of laughter is "an appropriate theological antidote to the Constantinian desire for control.”. View quote
Stanley Hauerwas
It is not given me to trace The lovely laughter of that face. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live. View quote
Norman Cousins
An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person. (Norman Cousins)
Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease. View quote
Norman Cousins
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top. View quote
Norman Cousins
Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful. View quote
Rajneesh
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter. View quote
Rajneesh