Laughing Quotes - Page 21

• There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)

  Kelly Link

  Makeup, Hair, People

  10 Copy quote

• Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thinking, Self, Discovery

  10 Copy quote

• Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Jewels, Language, Spokes

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Okay, I'll wear the Bite Me shirt,[...]It'll be my standard response to any­one who tries to hit on me." I giggle. "Someone can come up and be like 'Hey babe, what's your sign?' and I'll just point to my shirt." Rayne laughs appreciatively and tosses me the tank top. "Of course they might think you're pointing to your boobs in a 'have at 'em, big boy' kind of way.

  Mari Mancusi

  Boys, Thinking, Trying

  Mari Mancusi (2006). “Boys that Bite”, p.12, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.

  Brom

  Devil, Peter, Contagious

  4 Copy quote

• That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?

  Pascal Mercier

  Children, Moving, Magic

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• “Do you deny it?” Grimani persisted. “That you went to Marchese Rinaldo's room to ask him about your notebook?” “Deny it? Only the greatest selfrestraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.”

  Kate Ross

  Self, Deny, Restraint

  "The Devil in Music: Julian Kestrel #4".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.

  Sophie Scholl

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

  21 Copy quote

• One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Thousand, Ten

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.17, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And that's where our conversation went from there, than God, both of us laughing our butts off at the thought of a hoops game between two teams on intravenous fluids. Which makes absolutely no sense at all; I know that. But that's why it cheered me up, because it was so absolutely stupid. It cheered me up more than I'd ever thought I'd be cheered up again.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Team, Stupid, Games

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We don't want to lose you Lord Rahl. We don't want to go back to way things were." She sounded on the verge of tears. "We like being able to do simple things, like make a joke, and laugh. We could never do such things before. We always lived in fear that if we said the wrong thing we would be beaten, or worse. Now that we have seen another way, we don't want to go back to that. If you throw your life away for the Midlands, then we will.- Cara

  Terry Goodkind

  Simple, Tears, Would Be

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood of the Fold”, p.207, RosettaBooks

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh — but smile no more.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Moving, Doors, Rivers

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.737, Wordsworth Editions

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love you, i love your smile your snarl your grin, your face when your sleeping.I love your hair streaming behind you as we fly, with the sunlight making it shine, if it doesn't have too much mud or blood in it, I love seeing your wings spreading out, white and brown and tan and speckled, and the tiny downy feathers right at the top of your shoulders. I love your eyes, whether they're cold or calculating or suspicious or laughing or warm, like when you look at me.

  James Patterson

  Love You, Sleep, Eye

  5 Copy quote

• Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party. Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh.

  Jay Asher

  Fun, Nice, Party

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.108, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the moment, he's off plotting his Igoresque revenge. I don't know about you, but I have this image of him rubbing his hands together and laughing like Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Revenge, Hands, Together

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.37, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feared Sarah was one of those women who instead of laughing said, "That's funny," or instead of smiling said, "That's interesting," or instead of saying, "You are a stupid blithering idiot," said, "Well I think it's a little more complicated than that.

  Lorrie Moore

  Stupid, Thinking, Interesting

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.21, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

  Glenway Wescott

  Men, Silence, Fool

  4 Copy quote

• Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Names, Shapes

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• We dance, we dance. You hold the thread of my soul. You spin, you spin. And you unravel the part from the whole. We laugh, we laugh. I'm so far from where I began. I fall, I fall. And I forget that I am.-from Golden Tongue:The Poems of Steven Slaughter

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Fall, Soul, Golden

  4 Copy quote

• Sam screamed the fun scream, and there it was. Downtown lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. and in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Fun, Light, Downtown

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.

  Ani DiFranco

  Love, Life, Fighting

  Song: Pick Yer Nose, Album: Puddle Dive

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it . . . so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Laughter, Struggle, People

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I moved up beside Jamie."I have to go." She frowned at me. "Where?" I pressed a hand to the bottom of my belly. "My bladder.It-" Ah." She gave a small laugh. "We interrupt this life-or-death situation for a pregnancy pee break. Don't see that in the movies, do you?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Pregnancy, Hands, Break

  4 Copy quote

• Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Dream, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.118, Anchor

  5 Copy quote

  Show source