#laugh

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. ↗

— Tacitus

#empire #make #peace #plunder #slaughter

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#i #laugh #lightened #myself #self

Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#cheek #continue #hands #israelis #other

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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#comes #could #differently #early #energy

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. ↗

— Robert Caro

#drafts #everybody #first #four #go

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#individual #laugh #may #never #own

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#clubs #college #comedy #enough #entertainer

I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I’m her knight in shinning armor. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#laugh

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. ↗

— Stephen King

#laughter #laughter

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#laugh #laugh