Laughed Quotes - Page 27

• He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

  T. S. Eliot

  Laughter, Irresponsible

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see Rush Hour, and it was the greatest night we had in years together. We sat in that theater and we laughed for two hours without stopping. That was just a great memory that I had before my father died."

  Brett Ratner

  Memories, Father, Night

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much.

  Marc Maron

  School, Midnight, Fifteen

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth?

  Priscilla Presley

  Baby, Father, Vegas

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• Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

  Fay Wray

  Work, People, Done

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• It just makes me realize how . . . fleeting life can be. How quickly it all passes by. And it's strange to read something written by someone whose life was really just beginning then but who's dead now."He nodded, looking like he was taking that in. But then he said, "That's kinda deep, Daisy."She laughed, rolled her eyes. "Well, you asked. So if that's too deep for you, tell me about your fish.""Well, they were small and blue and I feel emotional because their lives were really just starting but they're dead now.

  Toni Blake

  Eye, Emotional, Blue

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• Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.

  J. Cole

  Baby, Pain, Believe

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• ...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting

  Will Schwalbe

  Teacher, Cancer, Eye

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• An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and imprisonment.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Law, Able

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

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• The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face looked exactly the same when I cried as when I laughed. After awhile I couldn't tell which I was doing. Relief was just pain inside out.

  Jerry Stahl

  Pain, Mirrors, Relief

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• That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

  Thomas Browne

  Improbable

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.359

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• I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

  Paula Poundstone

  Silly, Shoes, Paper

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• If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.

  Mary McCarthy

  Prayer, Lying, Character

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• The Rich arrived in pairs
  And also in Rolls Royces;
  They talked of their affairs
  In loud and strident voices...
  
  The Poor arrived in Fords,
  Whose features they resembled;
  They laughed to see so many Lords
  And Ladies all assembled.
  
  The People in Between
  Looked underdone and harassed,
  And our of place and mean,
  And Horribly embarrassed.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Mean, Voice, People

  Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”

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• Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Men, Essentials, Aspect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.

  Joni Mitchell

  Friendship, Perfect, World

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• I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

  Fran Drescher

  Lost, Whole

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• Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

  Jeff Daniels

  Long, Dumb, Boards

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• For by my glee might many men have laughed,
  And of my weeping may something have been left,
  Which must die now.

  Wilfred Owen

  Men, Glee, May

  Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting”

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• Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.

  Edgerrin James

  Stupid, Taken, Laughing

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• When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Player, Laughing

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• If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Pain, Cancer, Men

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

  Ovid

  Mind, Conscious, Rectitude

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• The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention; and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at.

  Simone Weil

  Rely Upon, Rights, Tone

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Appreciation, Children, Successful

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