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.

Samuel Johnson

The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth.

Weegee

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

Wallis Simpson

All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.

Samuel Beckett

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

Grady Sizemore

I was confused for a second. I didn't know what was going on, ... If they were going to give me a choice, I was going to take the homer over the double.

Dominik Wilkins

I was confused because one ref signaled that time had expired and the other called a foul, so I wasn't sure.

Bobbie Williams

I was confused and all the material I read got me more confused. With all the things I got in the mail, it was hard to decide.

Andi Anderson

I think we just royally confused some winter campers.

Vivian Stringer

I think that because Connecticut represents national champions, people should not get confused about what Connecticut is. Connecticut is a national power. They have been defending national champions. What makes Connecticut great is because they represent such greatness and accomplishment. So (a win) would say a lot.

Leonard Hamilton

I don't even know why I'm sitting here in fifth place in the ACC having to defend anything. I'm really confused about that. Matter of fact, I think we need six or seven teams.

Jimmy Allen

I discovered a rare man. In days of confused identities, this man knew who he was. Nothing could deter or confuse him. ... This man lived his whole life fighting for freedom.

Robert Belcher

I don't know what was the wisdom in that decision. It confused the mess out of everybody.

Richelle Mead

My smile faded, and I suddenly felt confused. My heart leapt in my chest. "Why would you do that for me?" "What wouldn't I do for you?

Richard Selzer

You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.

Vera Wang

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

Robert Penn Warren

Everything seems an echo of something else.

Yannick Noah

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

William Hazlitt

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.

Jake Gyllenhaal

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.

Eric Hoffer

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

Marshall McLuhan

The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

Knut Hamsun

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.