Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.

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.

Rhonda Byrne

Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures.

Trenton Lee Stewart

What is life without laughter?

Veronica Roth

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

Robert Motherwell

The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations...

Samuel Rutherford

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Salvador Dali

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted in its cooler climates.

Rod Stewart

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Voltaire

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

Voltaire

Wine is the divine juice of September.

William Lloyd Garrison

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

William Butler Yeats

now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

William Blake

Celebrate your existence!

Whoopi Goldberg

What we're doing is not just about becoming a model. It's bigger than that. It's shining a spotlight on folks who know who they are. They know what they want to do. And in terms of modeling, they're already working. They know what they're doing! They're fantastic!

Voltaire

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

William Hazlitt

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Johannes Kepler

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

James Joyce

You can still die when the sun is shining.

Lily Collins

Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.

Lauren Oliver

Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.