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.

Glenn Morris

Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth,

Jeff Koinange

hands down, even if in jail or in the grave.

Rob Niedermayer

He's got the sweetest hands I think I've seen on a guy. He doesn't panic with the puck at all. He doesn't let too much intimidate him or rattle him out there, and that's a big thing.

James Woods

Whatever it takes to get the job done. We need all hands on deck.

Paul Hefner

The purpose of this is to shift power from one set of hands to another.

Stephen Johnson

I think we need to put it in the hands of someone who knows real estate.

Matt Kiefer

I think that thought process will go through my mind whenever the season is over with, (then) I'll get to that. I'll have a lot of time on my hands without basketball, so I'll be able to reflect on that.

Tammy Johnson

I was very upset. No teacher has a right to put her hands on a child. This is not a one-time incident. This has happened before.

Heath Miller

I was able to get my hands inside and I probably used a little nudge from J.B. (Bettis) in the back to help me out a little bit.

Jock Sturges

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

Michel de Montaigne

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

Janet Fitch

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

Howard Nemerov

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.