Laughingly Quotes

#1. I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#2. But I wish to be enlightened.'
'Let me caution you against it.'
'Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?'
'Yes, indeed.'
She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.

Thomas Hardy

#3. It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.

Robert Schumann

#4. Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.

Craig Werner

#5. I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.

Jack O'Brien

#6. Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

Hesiod

#7. Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.

Cassandra Clare

#8. I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.

Gene Weingarten

#10. I don't know that I will ever make a political speech again." Would he care to qualify that statement? one reporter queried. "Yes," Roosevelt laughingly said. "I won't say never.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#11. Long have you timidly waded
Holding a plank by the shore,
Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
To jump off in the midst of the sea,
Rise again, nod to me, shout,
And laughingly dash with your hair.

Walt Whitman

#12. It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

Robertson Davies

#13. (I always thought that they should make an epidural that works from the neck up, which was a condition I aspired to for most of what I laughingly refer to as my adult life.)

Carrie Fisher

#14. Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

Zig Ziglar

#15. What if you let go of your excuses?

Paula Heller Garland

#16. I don't think there's any point in meeting anybody who doesn't like music.

Edith Bouvier Beale

#17. It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

Rodney Stark

#18. People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

Dallas Campbell

#19. There isn't a mayor in the world or a president in the world that can stop homicides.

Keith Hobbs

#20. Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.

Emmanuel Jal

#21. If they could swing it, most parents visited during meals to try to make their child's hospital room into a piece of the familiar by eating with them, and the kids - without exception - were too kind to tell them it only made home look that much farther away.

Kim Harrison

#22. We do not need such things to help us to see God," I countered. "We have His Word, and that is
enough.

Tracy Chevalier