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

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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

• The human mind can no more produce an original thought than a tree can bear an original fruit. As well might one cry for an original note in music as expect an original idea from a human brain. One wishes our friends, the critics, would grasp this simple truth, and leave off clamoring for the impossible, and being shocked because they do not get it.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Truth

• The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

  

  J. Arthur Thomson
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Energy
  • Transformation

• My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Down

• We have to protect the rights of the American people.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • People
  • American

• 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