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Quotes About Laughter

They start a tickling fight, laughing hysterically, and then they're necking again. Nicksy registers that his Scottish friend and the Bird With the Big Hair have adopted that arrogant 'look-at-us-we've-just-invented-sex' demeanor of people who're fucking after a long hiatus
~ Irvine Welsh
You said, when we embarked on this great adventure together, that lots of laughter was essential in a relationship. I agreed. You also made the point that a great deal of sex was of equal importance. Again, I agreed. Wholeheartedly. In fact I remember your exact words: laughter and sex are the barometers of a relationship. This was the statement you made, if I remember correctly. Don't get me wrong. I couldn't agree more. But no at the same time, ya fuckin cow.
~ Irvine Welsh
laughter was about more than humour. This was about reducing tension, solidarity in face of the grim reaper.
~ Irvine Welsh
and he wreaked havoc among the buttered toast as he said it.
~ Isaac Asimov
The clown's eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. "But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.
~ Isaac Asimov
Esa noche creí que había perdido para siempre la capacidad de enamorarme, que nunca más podría reírme ni perseguir una ilusión. Pero nunca más es mucho tiempo.
~ Isabel Allende
El hombre del amor calcinante, de los inventos eróticos, de la risa, las bromas y los juegos entre las sábanas, de la urgencia y la voracidad y la alegría, de las confidencias susurradas en la pausa entre dos abrazos, de los besos interminables y la intimidad más delirante, ese hombre sólo existía para ella.
~ Isabel Allende
Leanne lighted an oil lamp and they continued until the moment came to receive the baby. 'Erzulie, mother loa, help it be born,' Tete prayed aloud. 'Saint Raymond Nonatus, pay attention, do not let an African saint get ahead of you,' Leanne answered in the same tone, and they both burst out laughing.
~ Isabel Allende
Sabes, Leticia? Eres la persona más alegre que he conocido, todo te divierte, cocinas cantando y pasas la aspiradora con ritmo de rumba. —Así somos los salvadoreños. Antes decían que El Salvador era el país de la sonrisa, pero supongo que desde la guerra civil eso de andar sonriendo se usa menos.
~ Isabel Allende
He had a booming laugh that bubbled up from the bowels of the earth and shook him from head to toe.
~ Isabel Allende
Nada nos divierte tanto a los chilenos como burlarnos de nosotros mismos, aunque jamás soportaríamos que lo hiciese un extranjero.
~ Isabel Allende
Under their wings they harbor their own and others' children, friends, relatives, and hangers-on. They are always bone tired, weary from serving others, always putting off what they should do for themselves; the last among the last, they work tirelessly and age prematurely, but they never lose their capacity to laugh at themselves, their romantic hope that their partners will change, or the small flame of rebelliousness that burns in their hearts.
~ Isabel Allende
Marcelo was a gift from the gods, the perfect confidant. They talked to one another, and he made her laugh with his ugliness and the inquisitive look in his toad eyes. With this Chihuahua that barked at mice and ghosts, she could release the unbearable tenderness she felt inside but could not show to her daughter for fear of overwhelming her.
~ Isabel Allende
Leanne lighted an oil lamp and they continued until the moment came to receive the baby. "Erzulie, mother loa, help it be born," Tété prayed aloud. "Saint Raymond Nonatus, pay attention, do not let an African saint get ahead of you," Leanne answered in the same tone, and they both burst out laughing.
~ Isabel Allende
En privado los chilenos tenemos la risa pronta y el chiste fácil, pero en público somos un pueblo de tontos graves paralizados por el temor de hacer el ridículo
~ Isabel Allende
Sólo se reía de buena gana con Marcelo, de sus patas cortas y su cara de lémur; ese animal se daba el lujo de ser narcisista y gruñón, como un marido.
~ Isabel Allende
He tenido un día muy desgraciado! -me confesó, sollozando. – ¿No hubo un solo momento bueno en el día, Andrea? – Sí. Una niña se cayó y se partió los dientes. – ¡Pero qué tiene eso de bueno, Andrea, por Dios! – Que no fui yo.
~ Isabel Allende
Quella notte credetti di avere perso per sempre la capacità d'innamorarmi, che mai più avrei potuto ridere o inseguire un'illusione. Però mai più è molto tempo. E l'ho potuto sperimentare in questa lunga vita.
~ Isabel Allende
Years later my Popo would laugh and tell people that if she hadn't knocked him out in the first round, he'd still be wandering around in love with the stars.
~ Isabel Allende
llamarme «mamá», que deja una huella tremenda de su paso por mi vida, la memoria de su risa, de su gracia, de su rebeldía, de su martirio.
~ Isabel Allende
The relationship between them underwent no major changes with the girl's development, because it was based on the solid principle of mutual acceptance and the ability to laugh together at almost everything.
~ Isabel Allende
I find it a lot with Australian and New Zealand comics, and people from that part of the world, we share quite a similar sense of humour I think.
~ Natasia Demetriou
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
~ David O. Russell
I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.
~ Christopher Buckley