Laughing Quotes - Page 20

• When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

  Len Wein

  Jobs, Writing, Lenses

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• Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.

  Johnny Weir

  Thinking, Careers, Creating

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• I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

  Lawrence Welk

  Lines, Forget, Worried

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• The lingering laughter fled from his eyes as he realized that he'd given himself away. "Where's Fiddle now?" "Safe and cared for. Safer than you'll be if you don't answer my questions." Ping. He managed not to laugh, but it looked like a hard fight. "Dung," Makenna muttered. the knight's expression changed to startled disapproval. A prig, as he? Maybe she could use that. "I said you should let me handle this," Cogswhallop told her. "I'd have meant it.

  Hilari Bell

  Laughter, Eye, Fighting

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• At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Duchess, Said

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• People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

  Joss Whedon

  Children, People, Mind

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• It was strange and amusing...and, honestly, a bit embarrassing...to realize how much being near Bella had softened me. It seemed like no one was afraid of me any more. If Emmett found out about this, he would be laughing for the next century.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Would Be, Next, Strange

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• It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.

  Kristen Wiig

  People, Mystery, Making People Laugh

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.

  Kristen Wiig

  Christmas, Sweaters, Make Me Laugh

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

  Fred Wilson

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

  Rainn Wilson

  People, Giving, Baha

  "Rainn Wilson talks about Hollywood, his family and the Baha'i Faith". U.S. Baha'i News Interview, news.bahai.org. May 24, 2007.

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• That evening, Dudley paraded around the living room for the family in his brand new uniform...As he looked at Dudley in his new knickerbockers, Uncle Vernon said gruffly that if was the proudest moment of his life. Aunt Petunia burst into tears and said she couldn't believe it was her Ickle Dudleykins, he looked so handsome and grown-up. Harry didn't trust himself to speak. He thought two of his ribs might already have cracked from trying not to laugh.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Believe, Aunt

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• It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, People, Would Be

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• I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lonely, Ponds, Loud

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1967). “Three Hainish Novels”

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• She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Humor, Tunnels

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.25, Courier Dover Publications

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• To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Dream, Pain, Taken

  William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Running, People

  1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.

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• But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or revelation, just relentlessly and meaninglessly. No more rain showers in the desert, just mud and drizzle everywhere, occasionally illuminated by the flash of paparazzi.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Rain, Weather

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

  Steven Wright

  Thinking, People, Lucky

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• I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

  Steven Wright

  People, Stuff, Serious Business

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• I was always making my friends laugh but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

  Steven Wright

  Attention, Classroom, Wanted

  "Steven Wright Offers Pony Rides". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2009.

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• Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

  Steven Wright

  Kids, People, Fireman

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• Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.

  Steven Wright

  People, Four, Stills

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• How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

  Al Yankovic

  Cheer, Bored, Audience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.

  Vir Das

  Men, Would Be, Able

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