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.

Rose Macaulay

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

Salman Rushdie

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

William Faulkner

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

John Donne

Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

Louis de Bernieres

Love delayed is lust augmented.

Hermann Hesse

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

Alice Munro

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

Susan Sontag

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

Stephenie Meyer

I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.

Sergei Liakhovich

He said I'm scared of him, but I am scared of nobody.

Larry Rogers

He had to be scared for his life.

Sarah Wayne Callies

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

Sara Shepard

Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.

Sarah Dessen

It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.

Vijender Singh

Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.

Wyclef Jean

I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

Estelle

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

Neal Shusterman

Who says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.