Quotes About Laughter

An empty theater is a promise unfulfilled.In a few hours, everything around him would be light and noise. Laughter and applause. Colorful people packed together in their colorful finery. Tonight, the promise would be fulfilled. And then, after the curtain came down and the gaslights were snuffed out, there would be darkness again. That was the beauty of it. That was theater.

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

For its stupid to laugh and its useless to bawl About a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball

We decided to read our emails out loud to the group in order to share the warmth and optimism the messages contained. One of the most heartwarming was from the father of Petty Officer Rodney "RaRa" Young of Katy, Texas. His dad got right to the point: "You'd better come home because you promised to help me put up a fence, and I could really use that help." Everyone laughed because the words took us back to the normal world and out of the anxious monotony of our detention.

They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.

Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?

Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.

until Miri could not help it any longer and she laughed out loud. The sound broke the game. Peder looked at her. He reached out, and she thought he meant to grab her straw or perhaps yank her hair as he used to when they were little. But her put his hand behind her head and, leaning forward, pulled her face to his. He kissed her. One long, slow kiss.

He is ever inglorious His laugh is laborious His smell is notorious Impale the herring king!

Falling in love and falling to your death feel about the same, I thought. And I almost laughed.

But really, if you have the option to laugh, why ever hold it back?

It was different with him. It was as though he was naked to embarrass *me.* It was so strange how Khasar just stood there and laughed at my discomfort. So strange, and I was too afraid to do anything, even to look away. Then the last of the sunlight faded, and I realized why he'd taken off his clothes. It was so they wouldn't rip.

Miri's laugh is a tune you love to whistle.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

want loud and messy and crazy. I want crayons on the wall and bicycles in the driveway and playing ball in the backyard. I want to teach my kids to read and climb trees and drive a standard. I want noise and laughter and yelling and the kind of love that can't ever be broken.

Beth was laughing at his story when Bobby ran up to her. She lifted her plate out of harm's way and smiled at Kevin over his nephew's head as the boy put a hand on either side of her waist. "Hey, cuz!" Bobby yelled at her stomach. "What does a snowman eat for breakfast? Snowflakes!

Joe grinned and slapped the side of the truck. "Come on, cousin. You know we've always got your back." "Yeah, that's usually where you stick the kick-me sign." His cousin was still laughing when he backed out of the driveway.

Why are you so hung up on my not having a cell phone?" "Hung up?" He laughed. "Hung up. Cell phone. Get it?" She rolled her eyes, but couldn't stop herself from laughing with him.

There was, however, a sticky note on the mirror. Gassy? Payback's a bitch, honey. She laughed and dropped the note into the bottom drawer with the others she'd collected. They amused her too much to throw away and sometimes she'd pull one out and reread it. But that made her feel like some kind of lovesick teenager, so she closed the door and continued the search.

You're worrying already and you're not even on the plane yet." "Maybe you should get a fake dog." Emma laughed and wrapped her arms around Gram.

For something I've obsessed about right down to the last detail, I can't help but think I should have thought it through a little more." "You can still change your mind." She shook her head. "No, we're committed." "Or we should be," he said, and they both laughed.

Bobby stopped laughing and craned his head to look up at her. "I hope it's a boy." "So does your Uncle Kevin." "I'm sick of being the smallest boy. We need another one so I have somebody to pick on, too." "Oh…great." It was scary to think her baby was going to be the low man on the totem pole of trickle-down family dynamics.