Laughter Quotes

• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Judge

• Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.

  

  David Dobkin
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Space

• I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Women
  • She

• Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Hands
  • Bones

• The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Deep

• When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Movie
  • Man
  • Comedy

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Man

• Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Laughter
  • Face

• The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Understanding
  • Inspiration
  • Compassion

• Make portraits of people in familiar and typical positions, above all give their faces the same choice of expression one gives their bodies. Thus if laughter is typical for a person, make him laugh – there are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render…

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
  • Laughter

• I wonder if I had gone for laughter and tears from the start how sad (the movie) would've been.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Movie
  • Wonder
  • Sad

• Does anyone remember laughter?

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Remember
  • Laughter

• You laughed for the marrow in their bones that was not yet ready for laughter; And you wept for their eyes that yet were dry. Your voice fathered their thoughts and their understanding. Your voice mothered their words and their breath.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Words
  • Eyes
  • Understanding

• 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

• A trembling and some laughter, / a squirt of pee, a spit, / whispers of the heart, / a smell, / the drift to sleep, / pursuit by Gods, / exposure of the bum, / mathematics ...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Heart
  • Sleep
  • Laughter

• Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Laughter

• Here's my story: My mother and I were at Cirque du Soleil, looking down on Shiner doing his act. She was always tolerant of my being a clown, but I don't remember her rolling with laughter. But with Shiner, she could not sit up straight!

  

  Bill Irwin
  • Up
  • She
  • Remember

• We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Laughter

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Laughter

• The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Up
  • Important
  • Stop

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

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Light
  • Everyday

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