“Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.” NeedsWellsLooksRunningDesireHouseSpaceLaughingDoorsSkyColdInvolvedFitJokesWindowBlowHeatNerves Author:Aimee Bender
“All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.” MenLawDesireLaughingBrokenContraryLustInjury Author:Baruch Spinoza
“I read the Phantom comics when I was in Australia shooting 'Dead Calm'' and when one of the crew told me that there were plans for a movie, I went for it. That was in 1987 and I told (producer) Graham Burke I was going to be the Phantom. We had a laugh about that recently because you usually get what you deserve, not what you desire, and that is especially true in Hollywood!” DesireLaughingPlansDeserveHollywoodCalmProducersShootingAustraliaCrewPhantomsWhat You Deserve Author:Billy Zane
“If you take yourself too seriously, you're dead in the water. I think the key to all is to have a laugh, have fun, and express every desire you had, as a kid.” IfsThinkingKidsDesireFunWaterLaughingKeysHaving FunHave A Laugh Author:Chris Vance
“I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.” PeopleDesireLaughingLaughterTeethAggressiveMake People Smile Author:Muriel Spark
“Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?” DreamDesireBoysLaughingFameIllusionBlameSensesAdmirePyramidsUnattainableOutlasting Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton