Communication Quote by Max Eastman Download Open image “Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.” — Max Eastman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Laughter Speech Together
Laughter is a uniting force, it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier. — Montaigne Copy Share Image
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside. — Zero Mostel Copy Share Image
Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share