Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
Quotes to Explore
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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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.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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I love the concept of community energy.
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Laughter drives shouting away.
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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.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
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Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
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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.
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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.
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Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.
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Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.
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I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality. If it's Michael Jordan, you know, that's the mentality I take to the court.
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'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.
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What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.
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The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
