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Quotes About Laughter

The yellow eyes had fallen from the tired star. Lorq's face erupted about the scar at some antic from the Mouse that Katin had missed. Rage, Katin pondered. Rage. Yes, he is laughing. But how is anyone supposed to distinguish between laughter and rage in that face? But the others were laughing too. Yet some way, somehow, we do.
~ Samuel R. Delany
How true,' returned the measured, featureless voice. 'I would chuckle in amused agreement, but the laughter switches of my translator have been malfunctioning for the past six hours. You understand.' 'Certainly,' I said. And somehow felt much more comfortable.
~ Samuel R. Delany
No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My Achilles heel of laughter, the things that will make me laugh even on my deathbed, lie in two rather unusual areas: yodelling and amusing ways to die. No matter how sombre an occasion I will always giggle at yodelling.
~ Sandi Toksvig
Then we got a new games mistress called Miss Smith. She was young and good fun. She taught dance, loved music and a laugh. She also talked about God. A lot. She had been 'born again', which seemed an unpleasant thought.
~ Sandi Toksvig
The F word turns me on, she whispered. The F word? Food He threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time in years,his laughter was spontaneous. It wasn`t tinged with bitterness and cynicism.
~ Sandra Brown
I kissed his cheek. "My King." I swooped into the courtly curtsy he'd taught me as a girl, regally kicking an imaginary train aside as I turned to go. He was laughing silently as I left. For a moment I saw that spark again. I did not say goodbye.
~ Sandra Gulland
laugh uproariously. Dar and Aud looked back to see what
~ Sandra Hill
Bright Idea #91: When the weather's bad and your lights go out, have a pajama party. Eat till you feel sick, hula-hoop, paint your faces. Catch fireflies, and dance naked in the rain. If you do, then your bare butt will light up like a firefly after it's been let out of a jar.
~ Sandra Kring
I want to know what's wrong with having wrinkles? What's wrong? Follow along with your own faces. Okay, you see these lines here, these very deep lines I have in my face around my mouth? I got these lines from laughing. I hope you have deep lines in your face from laughing. And I hope they only get deeper.
~ Sandra Shamas
All forms of comedy are terrifying.
~ Sanjeev Nanda
The touched heart madly stirs, your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation, every sound is speech...
~ Sappho
And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I an do to not melt into a fit of giggles. So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this IS home.
~ Sara Gruen
That's when Josh got the feeling that he was watching himself, too, almost like he was a character in a movie. But it wasn't the right kind of movie, and he wondered about that. How do you get to be in the kind of movie you want to be in? Everyone else appeared to be in really awesome movies, full of camaraderie and laughter. Funny moments and ice cream cones. Adventure and suspense. Heroes! How could a person get into one of those?
~ Sara Nickerson
You know why Polish jokes are so short?...So the Germans can remember them.
~ Sara Paretsky
Emily peered at Carolyn's tall glass of dark liquid. It had a familiar smell, and she burst out laughing. "Is that straight-up Dr Pepper?" Carolyn raised her glass. "Heck yeah, it is.
~ Sara Shepard
The world was much more fun when they were playing the game.
~ Sara Shepard
Oh, love that lives its life with laughter Or love that lives its life with tears Can die—but love that is never spoken Goes like a ghost through the winding years. . .
~ Sara Teasdale
At Midnight Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won. Even love that I built my spirit's house for, Comes like a brooding and a baffled guest, And music and men's praise and even laughter Are not so good as rest.
~ Sara Teasdale
She can't be unhappy,' you said, 'The smiles are like stars in her eyes, And her laugh is thistledown Around her low replies.' 'Is she unhappy?' you said– But who has ever known Another's heartbreak– All he can know is how own; And she seems hushed to me, As hushed as though Her heart were a hunter's fire Smothered in snow.
~ Sara Teasdale
I gave my first love laughter, I gave my second tears, I gave my third love silence Through all the years. My first love gave me singing, My second eyes to see, But oh, it was my third love Who gave my soul to me.
~ Sara Teasdale
For the first time in my existence, I tell the truth, and I am greeted with lack of belief. This is the universe laughing at me.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
Courtiers were supposed to sound musical when they spoke, their laughter like a harp chord and their sneezes like notes on a flute
~ Sarah Beth Durst
I enjoy horse riding, spending time with my dog 'Smurf,' and basically having a really good laugh partying and having fun!
~ Katie Price