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.

Richard K. Morgan

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

Henry Rollins

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Nick McDonell

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

Marvin Hamlisch

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

Mary Pope Osborne

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

Eamon

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

Brian J. White

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

Jason Alexander

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

Donald Trump

I was never one who looked at success as bad. For me, success was always good. I loved it, and still do.

Rebecca West

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.