Zitat des Tages über Gelacht / Laughed:
You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.
You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.
I had this grand plan for writing the history of the United States in six volumes. This was in the mid-1990s; I was fairly young and very ambitious. I pitched it to a publisher, who just laughed at me.
I was being laughed at. I hated it, so I made an adjustment to control the situation. All comics learn that.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.
But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.
We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.
Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.
He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.
I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.
Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.
I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.
When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.
I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
When I said I could beat Alexander Gustafsson in a standup fight, people laughed at me. They thought, 'No way.' But I believe in what I'm seeing every day.
People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
