Quotes About Laughter

Eschewing ceremony, Eugenides said, You shot the ambassador? You gave me the gun, protested Sounis. I didn't mean for you to shoot the ambassador with it! Eugenides told him. Oh, how our carefully laid plans go astray, murmured the magus. You shut up! said Gen, laughing.

The king shouted I think I've broken something!!! Nothing important, I'm sure. she called back My pride!!! She laughed.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

Listen, I say, funny is the best thing I am. Faith says, Making jokes is your way of saying 'Do you love me?' and when someone laughs you think they've said yes.

After dessert, they invited me to go with them to the arts center for a Russian film with English subtitles. I said, I don't like to read during movies, and once Julia laughed it became a joke and made me feel that I was irrepressibly witty. So I went with them. It was the bleakest movie I'd ever seen; everyone died of heartbreak or starvation or both. At home, Julia threw herself on the sofa in Slavic despair and said, Please do get me some vodka.

Jane had a sweet, lovely laugh, and hours later Carlos discovered he was still thinking about it.

Did I say Seven Minutes in Heaven? No, you're playing Seven Minutes in Hell!" Mal cackled; she couldn't help it. This was going

were actually pretty hilarious—he hoped

There she saw the tiny princess, the fairest of the (is) land, sitting on her rickety throne, her hair as blue as the ocean, eyes as dark as night, and lips as pink as roses. Her hair was pulled back from her face in a pretty V-braid, and she laughed in delight at the array of marvels before her. The

There is no situation in life that can't be improved by laugher. Sometimes humor can help us get through situations we couldn't possibly endure without it. Sometimes laughter isn't superfluous; it's essential. Sometimes laughter is the next lesson we need to be learning.

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.

I'm consumed with curiosity because if I know Dirk, he probably sent his family a two-tine note—I'm getting married. I'll be there in a week,—and no further explanation whatsoever. Skif laughed, and admitted that that was just about what Dirk had written, word for word.

Mostly, though, Jonaton talked about geometry, Imaging, herbs and cures, and his cats. Anyone's cats, really. Often, he brought Imager pictures of various cats, and added funny captions to them. They always raised laughs as they were passed table to table.

Doctor Ambrosius smiled slightly. You and all the others here, are-or rather, one day will be-magicians. Spirit broke into a disbelieving laugh. Right, she said, starting to stand up. Mean, she could deal with; crazy was something else. Thank you, Professor Dumbledore. I hope the train hasn't left yet, because-

She'd have laughed at the expression on his face, if she hadn't known that would make him turn against her. What a joke! To think that she, a skeptic above all else, had raised up a pious little Satanist! Could Satanists be pious?

When your steed laughs at you, you are in a bad way.

There are some people who would rather be right than happy, as though making a point was more fun than having a good time These are the people who will risk their lives to get the last laugh even when it isn't funny

I saw a Puffin In the Bay of Baffin Sittin on Nuffin And it was Laffin.

There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and its cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humour. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Everyone always warms to people who can laugh at themselves. It's human nature - and the best jokes are always against ourselves. It shows character, humility and grace.

Often in my lectures when I use the phrase "imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy" to describe our nation's political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism. It functions as a disclaimer, discounting the significance of what is being named. It suggests that the words themselves are problematic and not the system they describe.

That's the woman's soul. That's her inside." My friends regarded me questioningly. "It's what can't be buried," I explained wildly and vaguely. "It's what makes you laugh or cry and love people and hate people. It's—it's feeling and thinking and—it's what can't be put in the ground.

I told the waiter I was looking for a hotel whose name I didn't know on a street whose name I didn't know and could he help me; we both laughed and he said: Aren't we all.

I turned my face to the sky and laughed because the things you enjoy can't hurt you.