Laughter Quotes
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
Zac Efron
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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
Malcolm de Chazal
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Does anyone remember laughter?
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
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Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family.
Marlo Thomas
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Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
Martha Beck
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Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.
David Dobkin
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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
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'Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love.'
Craig Ferguson
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
W. S. Merwin
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Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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
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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
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Francois Rabelais
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Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.
William Alfred Quayle
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
Wayne Dyer
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We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
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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
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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
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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
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The highest state is laughter.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi