Tag: laughter

Could you L a little less OL?

Post author By quotegeek
Post date August 10, 2013

Alex Dunphy: Could you L a little less OL?

Tags communication, laughter, noise, technology

I think there is a very close connection between what frightens people and what makes them laugh.

Post author By quotegeek
Post date May 10, 2013
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I have a theory, that there is a terrific link between what is funny and what is scary. I think there is a very close connection between what frightens people and what makes them laugh. Laughter is a kind of nervousness. Animals don’t laugh. Smiling is, anthropologists agree, directly linked to the baring of the teeth.

Tags comedy, fear, laughter

Amy Tan

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

Post author By quotegeek
Post date February 21, 2013
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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

Tags hope, innocence, laughter

William Hazlitt

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps

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Post date January 13, 2013
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Tags human nature, humanity, laughter, perception, perspective