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.

Wyndham Lewis

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

Wyndham Lewis

Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.

Wyndham Lewis

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

William Osler

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

Joseph Addison

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

Will Ferrell

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.

Robert De Niro

You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.

Tucker Carlson

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

Jeff Perry

He can skate and sees the ice very well and he has a big shot.

Woody Allen

Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.

Tori Amos

On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

Zygmunt Bauman

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

Marian Hossa

can't wait to step on the ice in Atlanta.

Kunal Nayyar

I'm helping launch the new Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. I play an astrophysicist on television, and the name of the bar is Milky Way, so put two and two together, and here I am.

Johnny Weir

I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.

Scott Ford

They are not here illegally until ICE says they're illegal.

Dave Richards

They'll show how it used to be done historically when ice was used for shipping. They'll be scratching it in a checkerboard way and scoring it.