I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She could have dropped you both off. whar's the worst she can do? cry hysterically?"the gears on the ute get stuck at… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Jason, stop this,” she pleaded. “You don’t want to kiss me. You don’t even like me more than a little when you… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
It was a very interesting experience. You know, I don't think words could do it justice. Roseanne [Barr] is a comedian, a… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches,… — Carly Craig Copy Share Image
It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh. — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
If you get too heavy with the nods and winks, people get a sense that they're excluded from something. If they're in… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
People don't like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain… — Khloe Kardashian Copy Share Image
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition.… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
That was one of the bravest, stupidest things you’ve ever done,” he said into my hair. “You just scared ten years off… — Jenna Black Copy Share Image
To me, when one is writing sometimes about a very specific subject with very specific people, I feel like if that story… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When Bridget [Jones] does finally get pregnant, she 's bound to mess it up, but what I tried to show is the… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
The girls that I grew up with, and my friends and I, we just never had interests in common. I loved comedy.… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them… — Jeff Garlin Copy Share Image
He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Sooner or later we'll be looking back on everything and we'll laugh about it like we knew what all was happening — Michael Tolcher Copy Share Image