Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.

Nhat Hanh

Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.

Mike Nichols

Yes. The whole point about laughter is it’s like mercury: you can’t catch it, you can’t catch what motivates it—that’s why it’s funny,

John Gould

Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

John Green

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

Cassandra Clare

I imagine that it will not be easy to persuade Mortmain into a bonnet," Magnus observed. "Though the color would be fetching on him." Henry burst into laughter. "Very droll, Mr. Bane." "Please, call me Magnus." "I shall!

Muriel Spark

I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.

Kimberly Elise

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.

Josh Earnest

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

Ovid

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

Mary Wortley Montagu

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

Mark Helprin

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

Pat Conroy

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Pat Conroy

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

Pat Conroy

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

Pat Conroy

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

Julia Roberts

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

Kristin Chenoweth

Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.

Klaus Kinski

I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

Moliere

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

Molly Ivins

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Milton Berle

Laughter is the best medicine in the world.

Ken Wilber

AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter)

Kelly Stables

I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing. It's one of my favorite thing to do, so I'm attracted to it for many reasons.

Katherine Mansfield

The fields are snowbound no longer; There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green. The snow has been caught up into the sky- So many white clouds-and the blue of the sky is cold. Now the sun walks in the forest, He touches the bows and stems with his golden fingers; They shiver, and wake from slumber. Over the barren branches he shakes his yellow curls. Yet is the forest full of the sound of tears.... A wind dances over the fields. Shrill and clear the sound of her waking laughter, Yet the little blue lakes tremble And the flags of tenderest green bend and quiver.

Kate Clinton

In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories - that if you can get them to open up and laugh, there is a possibility of improvement, and a possibility of change. I think humor sneaks up on people, and before you know it, you're laughing at something you might not agree with.

Kate Clinton

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

Ken Kesey

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Katie Price

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

Kim Harrison

We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen. Nothing did. “This isn’t good,” Quen said. I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.

Mark Twain

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

Mark Twain

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.