Laughing Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Kind, Clown

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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• Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!" Fang: "But we're grounded." Max and Fang: (stare at each other for a second and burst out laughing)

  James Patterson

  Max, Break, Checks

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• And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you keep away from me then.' I'd like to, but how can I tell?' I asked. O.K., I'll wear a hat for a couple of days after my period starts. A red one. That should work,' she said with a laugh. 'If you see me on the street and I'm wearing a red hat, don't talk to me, just run away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Couple, Two

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• People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Light, People

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• All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Laughter, Frustration, Energy

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• One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Heart, Stones

  Quoted in Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde (1930)

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• You have as much laughter as you have faith.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Laughter, Have Faith

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Crazy, Grief

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• Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!

  Gaston Leroux

  Love You, Mad, Looks

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• Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]

  Alexandre Dumas

  Thinking, Long, Challenges

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• My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

  Meister Eckhart

  Done, Scripture, Lord

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• I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something cruel to expiate my anger and to justify myself. But it's difficult with old friends; difficult because it's so easy. You know one another as well as lovers do and you have had less to pretend about. I poured myself a drink and shrugged. 'Nothing's perfect.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Perfect, Old Friends

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• Laughter is the language of the soul.

  Pablo Neruda

  Happiness, Laughter, Soul

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• My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie, not just a sleeper, but also the big, overproduced first-run kind. I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And if some aficionado of my mess says "That's not like Frank!," all to the good! I don't wear brown and grey suits all the time, do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera, often. I want my feet to be bare, I want my face to be shaven, and my heart--you can't plan on the heart, but the better part of it, my poetry, is open.

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Heart, Feet

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.231, Univ of California Press

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• Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there are those who suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.

  John C. Maxwell

  Strong, Humble, Character

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Break Up, Breakup, Taken

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