Laughing Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.

  Frank McCourt

  Simple, Decision, Way

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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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 steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.

  Miranda July

  Laughter, Died, Dies

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?" I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell

  Suzanne Collins

  Guy, Leaving, Firsts

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• Stay with me. I’ll show you things that’ll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for the sheer joy of it.

  Nalini Singh

  Passion, Joy, Delight

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection”, p.48, Penguin

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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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• To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.

  Vir Das

  People, Different, Way

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• Women do come up to me after a show, but it's usually to say, 'Yhank you for making us laugh,' and all that.

  Vir Das

  Come Up, Shows

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• Chennai is one of the scariest crowds to face. Everyone looks so conservative, but once you crack the first joke, they are so appreciatively loud that they will hit you with a laugh that will scare you stiff and yet give you energy. Chennaiites give me the loudest laughs; it's the coolest crowd to perform for.

  Vir Das

  Giving, Scare, Energy

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• Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

  Felix Dennis

  Laughter, Night, Ideas

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• The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.

  Frans de Waal

  Strong, Primates, Given

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• I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day.

  Niecy Nash

  Husband, Reality, People

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• I have an extra set of eyelashes because you never know. I could cry or laugh, or it could be windy, and I'll need a standby pair.

  Niecy Nash

  Eyelashes, Needs, Pairs

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• I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

  John Oliver

  Comedian, Sound, Realizing

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• Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

  Pat Conroy

  Laughter, Air, Pewter

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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