Laughter Quotes - Page 35

• You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,
  Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy
  Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

  Callimachus

  Writing, Wine, Poetry

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• For me, laughter is how we take a much needed break from the heartache, such that when we turn to face it again, it has by some miracle grown smaller in size and intensity, yet not disappeared altogether.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Inspirational, Hurt, Heart

  Liz Curtis Higgs (2004). “The Best of Liz Curtis Higgs”, Thomas Nelson

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• I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.

  Melissa George

  Fun, Emotional, Play

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• I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

  Romany Malco

  Uncomfortable Situations, Tools, Use

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Humanity, Viruses

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• Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan to transform her own life and ended up revolutionizing the lives of many of her Afghan sisters. This book made me feel like I was right there in the beauty salon, sharing in the tears and laughter as, outside my door, an entire country changed. KABUL BEAUTY SCHOOL is inspiring, exciting, and not to be missed.

  Masha Hamilton

  Country, Book, School

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• It hurts! It throbs with pain, the like of which I never felt the half! Mortal flesh would scream again . . . yet demon spirit bids to laugh

  Alan Grant

  Hurt, Pain, Laughing

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• We're sending you best wishes
  And hope your day goes well
  And that you'll find some memories
  With stories you can tell
  Of how you had a marvelous time
  And those around you too
  With fun and lots of laughter
  And all this just for you..
  Have a Very Happy Birthday

  Janet Horne

  Birthday, Fun, Memories

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• Godlike the man who
  sits at her side, who
  watches and catches
  that laughter
  which (softly) tears me
  to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time
  I see her.

  Catullus

  Men, Tears, Watches

  Gaius Valerius Catullus (1983). “The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition”, p.110, Univ of California Press

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• I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.

  Fred Astaire

  Running, Singing, Generations

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• We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fear, Passion, Long

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.155, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Relaxation, Relax

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• For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Creativity, Cherish Every Moment

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• Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

  Michael R. Burch

  Political, Grace, Saving

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• I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

  Art Buchwald

  Inspirational, Laughing, Made

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• There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

  Brian Andreas

  Children, Noise, Imagine

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• Humor is an antidote to isolation.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Isolation, Antidote

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

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• I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.

  Muhammad Ali

  Kindness, Generosity, Cups

  "Muhammad Ali...Recipe for Life". www.youtube.com. July 24, 2007.

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• The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

  Jean Cocteau

  Silence, Black, Violent

  "Two Screenplays: The Blood of a Poet. The Testament of Orpheus".

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• Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

  Alfred Jarry

  Discovery, Born, Contradictory

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• In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking....capable of pity and laughter..appreciative of womem..involved in personal relationships...susceptible to physical impressions

  Louis MacNeice

  Talking, Prejudice, World

  "Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay". Book by Louis MacNeice, 1938.

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• I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

  Patti LaBelle

  Happiness, Smile, Joy

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Aug 30, 2012

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• Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

  Chuck Jones

  Happiness, Art, Joy

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• Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

  Chuck Jones

  Happiness, Joy, Strange

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

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• The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Sarcasm, Discrepancies Between, Vices

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