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 Osler

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?

Jodi Benson

I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.

Tyler Perry

Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.

William Wordsworth

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

Tupac Shakur

I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me

Uma Thurman

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

Robert Redford

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

Robert Lowell

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Robert Ludlum

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.