Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

Brenda Shaughnessy

• Laughter
• Heartache
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• Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Better
  • Laughter

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

  

  Victor Borge
  • Person
  • Laughter
  • Reward

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Love
  • Laughter
  • For Him

• I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Day

• I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Different
  • Mistake

• 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

• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Tears
  • Laughter

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

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Laughter

• 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

• There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most somber, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • Nature

• Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Music
  • Help
  • Singing

• And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • People
  • Laughter

• More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.

  

  Leah Remini
  • People
  • Trying
  • Remember

• If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

  

  Denis Norden
  • Laughter

• A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

  

  John Cleese
  • People
  • True
  • Laughter

• Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

  

  Carol Channing
  • Important
  • Laughter

• Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

  

  Allen Klein
  • Heart
  • May
  • Study

• I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Comedy
  • Moments
  • Feelings

• Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Mind

• I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Years
  • Doing
  • Feet

• I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

  

  Brenda Shaughnessy
  • Laughter
  • Heartache
  • Constitutes