Famous Quotes & Sayings

Renee Zellweger

I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.

Umberto Eco

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

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.

William Butler Yeats

Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit....

Walter Scott

Give me an honest laugher.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part.

Yukio Mishima

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

Emile M. Cioran

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

John Calvin

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

Benjamin Franklin

in eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Jane Fonda

I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

Charles Bukowski

it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

Clive Barker

Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.

Richelle Mead

We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.

Rick Riordan

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

Woody Hayes

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

Woody Allen

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

Robinson Jeffers

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Laurence Olivier

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

B. F. Skinner

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

Tennessee Williams

The helpless can't help the helpless.

Shusaku Endo

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.