Quotes About Genuine Laughter

#1. People laugh because they're nervous, or to cover up tension, or to flirt, or because there's some instant applause meter in their head telling them that it's the socially acceptable thing to do. Genuine laughter, I don't even think that happens daily.

Lindsey Leavitt

#2. I have heard the hollow, shallow laughter of the world. I have heard the genuine laughter of the beaming young Christian. I know there is a difference.

Billy Graham

#3. Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

Norman Cousins

#5. The energy it sapped from him, not being able to protect her. You wouldn't think that something you couldn't do and were not doing would take any energy, but it did.

Lionel Shriver

#6. But patents are not market devices. They are the opposite. They are a government-sanctioned monopoly permitting exclusive sales of a product for a limited period of time, protected by courts of law.

Linsey McGoey

#7. I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

Mark Haddon

#8. Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

Franklyn Ajaye

#9. Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#10. The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.

Jan Karon

#11. Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?

Adyashanti

#12. Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Mark Twain

#13. You can pretend to admire, but, unless you are a superb actress, you can't pretend to laugh. Laughter is genuine or else it is just a noise.

Christopher Milne

#14. In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity.

Laura Bohannan

#15. The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#16. He growled. I mean it, a gut wrenching growl and

Michelle Hughes

#17. As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding

Steven Sloman

#18. White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.

Daniel Mason

#19. Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#20. If you observe well, your own heart will answer.

R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz

#21. I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper.

Erik Larson

#22. Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Brad Pitt