Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny Carter redefined American jazz. From the start, his fellow musicians said the way he played the sax was amazing. They say that about me, too. (Laughter.) But I don't think they mean it in quite the same way.

Roberto Bolano

Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.

Ty Burrell

I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do: I took an acting class. In one of those first days of the class, I did this weird, silly improv, and it got laughs. It was such a blissful moment. I've never gotten over that love of hearing laughter. As a people pleaser, it's the drug of choice for me.

Yogi Berra

Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.

Trenton Lee Stewart

What is life without laughter?

Samuel Johnson

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Ryan Adams

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

Robert K. Greenleaf

Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.

William Hazlitt

Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.

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.

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.

Whitney Houston

Sometimes you'll laugh. Sometimes you'll cry. Life never tells us, the when's or why's. When you've got friends, to wish you well. You'll find your point when. You will exhale.

Walton Goggins

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

Wanda Sykes

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

Wanda Sykes

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

Rodney Dangerfield

He who laughs last didn't get it in the first place.

Roberto Bolano

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him....

Drea Matteo

There are so many people that are responsible for this, that if I even try to thank any of them right now, I might puke, choke, cry or die.

Charles Hynes

I cry a lot. It was a hard-fought race,

Duff Green

Had it not been for the cry of Nullification, Mr. Calhoun would have been nominated by the Anti-Masons.

William S. Burroughs

I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.

Voltaire

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

Stan Kasten

I'm sure it will have a lot of interest, but that's a far cry from saying they will be sold. Remember they were on the market once before.

Simon Schoch

I'm sure it was possible back then that one of us used to cry when we'd lose to the other one.

Linda Thomas

I know we're going to hear a major cry from that population.

James Blake

I'm grown up and I'm realizing that you can be a man and still cry. There are some things that you can't control. Emotions take you over. I mean, if anyone, if any guy, went through what I went through and didn't cry at his dad's funeral, I'd probably question that person.