Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Hu

Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly.

Ronnie Barker

It's better to make people laugh than cry.

Romeo Dallaire

There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.

Tyler Perry

I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.

Willie Aames

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

William Saroyan

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

Whitney Cummings

I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.

Samuel Richardson

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Samuel Beckett

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

Rose Byrne

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

Ulysses S. Grant

There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

Winston Churchill

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Zadie Smith

The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

Henry Rollins

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Henry A. Kissinger

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

James Gunn

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

R. C. Sproul

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

Natalie du Toit

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

Jonathan Haidt

When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, thats fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

Julie Delpy

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

Cameron Crowe

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

Anne Hathaway

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Toni Braxton

I've always tried to be positive. There's a lot going on.

Scott Hall

Be positive. Keep grinding. Stay positive.

Courtney Barnett

It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.