Isobelle Carmody (Isobelle Jane Carmody) Quotes

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Isobelle Carmody

• Laughter
• Darkness
• Defy

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• Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Love
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Person
  • Being
  • Laughter

• If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Person
  • Laughter
  • Reward

• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Pressure

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

  

  Hannah More
  • May
  • Light
  • Religion

• Laughter drives shouting away.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Laughter
  • Away
  • Shouting

• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Movie

• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

  

  Carl Jung
  • People
  • Best
  • Darkness

• When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Laughter

• I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • America
  • Night

• 'Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love.'

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Laughter

• Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one’s neighbor fall off his roof.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.

  

  David Farr
  • God
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.

  

  Anna Eshoo
  • Great
  • Family
  • Friends

• There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • Brave
  • Depression
  • Achievement

• Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

  

  Eileen Caddy
  • Joy
  • Laughter

• Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • People
  • Live
  • Nature

• Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.

  

  Elisabeth Shue
  • Work
  • Long
  • Opportunity

• At this point of my life, I'm 32 and I feel sexier than ever because you know what you want.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Want
  • Feels

• But I'd far rather live without souls or morals than Parmesan.

  

  Kate Quinn
  • Without
  • Morals

• Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

  

  Isobelle Carmody
  • Laughter
  • Darkness
  • Defy