Quotes About Laughter

I grok people. I am people so now I can say it in people talk. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting

He said after reading Illuminatus! he laughed so much that he got over his paranoia.

Do we think at all — about these allegations, or about anything else — or do we just respond mechanically with conditioned prejudices, as the Behaviorists assure us? If we laugh at the gross bigotries of the 13th Century, what do we think about the data that seems flatly impossible to us?

She laughed in the darkness. "Of course it is," she said. "That's the story of your life. What doesn't matter. It's how you look when you do it.

Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.

Yes, Norman, I suppose you're right. That's where I'd probably be. But I wouldn't be there alone. Norman slammed the door, locked it, and turned away. He wasn't quite sure, but as he ran up the cellar steps he thought he could still hear her chuckling gently in the dark.

Comedy and horror are opposite sides of the same coin.

Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.

She made them all laugh and forget for a moment that they were dying men.

Larkin pushed the accelerator and felt the wind lift her hair. She bore south on Vine, then east on Wilshire, laughing as her eyes grew wet. Light poles flicked past; red or green, it didn't matter and she didn't care. Honking horns were lost in the rush. Her long hair, the color of pennies, whipped and lashed. She closed her eyes, held them closed, kept them shut even longer, then popped them wide and laughed that she still flew straight and true—

Humor. I am my own best audience. Meryl

It should die down in a few days." "And if it doesn't?" Truly shrugged. "Enjoy the idolatry. You earned it, my friend. You really came through for us." A tall thin guy from one of the national networks yelled, "Hey, Sherlock Holmes! Are you really that good or did you just get lucky?" I said, "Some idol." Truly laughed and I climbed into my car and drove away. Slowly. I almost ran over a cameraman.

Storyteller's Creed: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

I use Cheer. I like the idea of a happy wash.

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We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be. Tears bring relief. Laughter brings release.

The very existence of poetry should make us laugh. What is that all about? What is it for?

Gregori leaned forward. Can you believe it? We're all a bunch of mutants! Just like the Ninja Turtles. Angus blinked. We - we're like... turtles? Gregori burst out lauging. Ian shook his head, grinning. Connor snorted. Nay. We have vampire DNA. No turtles.

You're a clever one. Her eyes twinkled with humor. We'll have very clever children.

There were moments where I could make her laugh so unselfconsciously that she felt like a child again, expanding into her past as she was moving into her future.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

She smiled and

Life is like comedy—it's all in the timing." She

I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.