It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you;… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Maybe he couldn't understand why we weren't able to laugh yet, but he knew you can't really be strong until you see… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
“He said I could make him happy. Then I understood the cause of my sadness. I didn't want to make anybody happy.… — Gerda Weissmann Klein Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and my brothers and I love to go to The Mountain Opry when we… — Rachel Boston Copy Share Image
Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“Plundering and stealing, cheating and lying, laboring, fighting and loving; taking all we could and returning little, we went our careless and… — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
“Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay in, we'll laugh… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Eve hugged him and whispered in his ear, "Careful. I'm fatal." He needed to remember that warning. He whispered back, holding her… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
If I was just allowed to talk and handle the whole thing by myself without the audience interrupting with laughter, the show… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do:… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
“There were sharp little blows in the music, and waves of quick, fine notes that burst and rolled like the thin, clear… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
God has placed several situations before me but the value of this one outweighs the rest. Your laugh, your scent, your presence… — Tiffany Copy Share Image
The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The coffee was never served. It boiled over, spattered them all, and wet a costly tablecloth and the baroness's dress. But it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To be conservative…is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
All of your days, I have walked with you, Giggling, Smiling, Laughing, Inside your head. Once upon a time, I was born,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
When there's characters out there that don't have humor, I don't find them as believable, because we all have humor, no matter… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humour is the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It's just a wonderful experience and it's fun when you make a film and people go to it to emote and in… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs;… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told,… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
Most people look at a feature film and say, "It's just a movie." For me there is no border or wall between… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
