Laughter Quotes - Page 45

I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips.

Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.

Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.

I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.

I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that --- even for just a moment --- I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears.

The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we're alone in anything.

I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

The laughers are a majority.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.