Laughter Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.

  Clement Attlee

  Fall, Ideas, Benches

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• The fountain of youth for me, let’s see…I guess it’s exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex — yes, sex, we need that as human beings. It’s healthy, it’s natural, it’s what we are here to do!

  Cameron Diaz

  Sex, Exercise, Water

  "Cameron Diaz: 'Lots of Sex' Is My 'Fountain of Youth'". U.K Vogue Interview, www.usmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

  C. S. Lewis

  Roaring, Study, Moments

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

  Stephen King

  Self, Laughing, Hurricanes

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.676, Simon and Schuster

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• Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Followers, World, Rewards

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of John".

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• Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.

  Alan Kay

  Art, Jobs, Creativity

  "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• I think that laughter and smiling are some of the best antidotes to ageing that you could possibly have. In general, I pretty much think of myself as still being about 5.

  Demi Moore

  Thinking, Ageing, Antidote

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• The highest state is laughter.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  States, Highest

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• Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.

  Robin Sharma

  Heart, Laughing, Soul

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.185, Jaico Publishing House

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• Laughter - that is something very sacred especially for us Indians.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Sacred

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• If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Sweet, Song

  Henry Van Dyke, “If All The Skies”

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• The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

  Brian Andreas

  Wind, Wings, World

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• People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.

  Josh Sundquist

  Hurt, People, Laughing

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• Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date

  Mary Karr

  Book, Reading, Ambition

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• While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

  Ryan Adams

  Passion, Heart, Gold

  Ryan Adams (2009). “Infinity Blues”, p.232, Akashic Books

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• Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

  Harpo Marx

  House, Sides, Sound

  "Harpo Speaks". Book by Harpo Marx, 1961.

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• Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

  Robin Ince

  Cold, Computer, Stage

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• Go, forget me! why should sorrow
  O'er that brow a shadow fling?
  Go, forget me, and to-morrow
  Brightly smile and sweetly sing!
  Smile,—though I shall not be near thee;
  Sing,—though I shall never hear thee!

  Charles Wolfe

  Happiness, Smile, Joy

  Charles Wolfe (1827). “Remains of the Late Rev. Charles Wolfe ...: With a Brief Memoir of His Life”, p.44

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• When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important.

  Susan Anton

  Happiness, Smile, Beautiful

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• I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smile and laugh all the time... But if a girl can make me laugh... I'm in love!!!!

  Jesse McCartney

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

  Carol Vorderman

  Medicine, Laughing, Lists

  "Carol Vorderman: I've piled on the pounds from partying" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2011.

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• In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

  Longchenpa

  Facts, Manifest, Perceive

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