Zitat des Tages über Lachen / Laughter:
I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
I just love listening to the laughter.
I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche and then applies an antibiotic cream. You gotta keep it away from your eyes.
I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
I've kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end-all measurement of what I'm doing.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
Laughter's good, but it's not love. It's one aspect. One emotion you're eliciting from your audience.
Laughter is America's most important export.
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
