Laughed Quotes - Page 33

• A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Men, Causes, British

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• A teacher is there to laugh at you because you have such a high opinion of yourself that you need to be laughed at. You need to sense how small we all are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Laughing, Needs

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• Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.

  Walter Bagehot

  Life, Stars, Caring

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.187

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• People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.

  Coco Chanel

  People, Secret, Looks

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• 17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman’s most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don’t laugh at it anymore. I just realize now that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.

  Holly Black

  Men, Glasses, Magic

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• Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Dignity

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• Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fire, Trying, Documentation

  Linux-kernel mailing list, lkml.org. January 12, 2001.

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• The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens.

  Pat Condell

  Forever, Religion, Lasts

  "Laughing religion off the planet with Pat Condell". Interview with Dave Mckeegan, freethinker.co.uk. February 27, 2008.

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• There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.

  Tamsin Greig

  Thinking, Laughing, Looks

  "Seriously funny" by Jasper Rees, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 29, 2006.

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• I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of water over rocks down below, cicadas rattling a chorus off in the distance. All sounds of the world carrying on like it always had. So much could change or be lost, and still, the rest of the world went on like it was nothing. It didn't seem wrong, but it didn't seem right either. I'd gone on today like it was nothing. I'd laughed and felt happy and forgotten for a little while that this was now a world without my brother in it.

  Jessi Kirby

  Brother, Distance, Eye

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• You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

  Kristin Hannah

  Lying, Thinking, Careers

  Kristin Hannah (2009). “The Things We Do for Love: A Novel”, p.382, Ballantine Books

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• When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

  Carrot Top

  Comedian, My Friends

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• My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Knowing Everything, Rooms

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• When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness.

  Kazuya Minekura

  Butterfly, Darkness, Fluttering

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• Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry's parents' wedding.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Years, Differences

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• In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.

  Ian Mckellen

  Character, Gay, Old Fashioned

  Source: collider.com

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• He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Greatness, Laughing, Mirth

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• I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

  Fanny Burney

  Mind, Done, World

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.164, Delphi Classics

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• A complete revaluation takes place in your physical and mental being when you've laughed and had some fun.

  Catherine Ponder

  Fun

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• some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

  Ouida

  Laughter, Hypocrite, Men

  Ouida (2005). “Moths”, p.257, Broadview Press

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• I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Children, Growing Up, Home

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.

  Catherine the Great

  Laughter, Gay, Able

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• Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Laughter, Men, Creatures

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