The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture...
I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
I won't say that you're pretty because that dog already did. And I won't say you're funny because you have had me laughing since I met you.
It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear. I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’s supposed to be.
You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.
It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different." "Not a mystery." Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history." Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.
If you want to change your life – Smile. If you want to change someone else life – Smile. If you want to be connected – Laugh.
I asked you to marry me – and you laughed. You thought I was joking. In fairness, I was still dressed as a Cavalier.
Remember that our desires will not arrive by our schedule. If you really want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.
Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.
Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn't notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
Everyone at his table laughs. They know I can hear them. They just don't care.
We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.
I wouldn't want to get you into trouble." Gordon hesitated still... Maddie laughed carelessly. "Wouldn't be the first time. Probably wouldn't be the last.
In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.
I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.
It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.
