Laughingstock Quotes

#1. The United States is the laughingstock of the world.

Scott Ritter

#2. Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

Trebor Healey

#3. If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.

Edward Steichen

#4. Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.

Eric Hoffer

#5. Please," her shadow begged.
Laughingstock for sure.
"I can't give you what you want," Cam said. "You know that." She had to know that.

Erin Kellison

#6. If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

Andy Kaufman

#7. Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

Sam Donaldson

#8. If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.

Jonathan D. Spence

#9. Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#10. The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

Walter Ulbricht

#11. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. My instructions to Lord Vader and Moff Tarkin were to make an example of the shipjackers, not to allow the shipjackers to make a laughingstock of the Empire's intelligence chiefs.

James Luceno

#13. You have debased my child ... You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence ... a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.

Lee De Forest

#14. Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#15. We were the laughingstock of that first season ... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.

Roma Downey

#16. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#18. It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

M. Ward

#19. No one becomes a laughingstock who laughs at himself.

Seneca.

#20. I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. Colors blind the eye
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.

Lao-Tzu

#22. We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

Anita Hill

#23. The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

Jack Kemp