“If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.” IfsStatesReasonPlaySufferingMoralLaughingDoorsFairsPositive AtheismAriseGood SenseSectsFair PlayReligious Sects Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“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
“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.” IfsWorldLoveOrderLeftLove IsLaughingDoorsDangerousThanksGiverGave UpCoffinsLatchesLaugh Love Author:William Sloane Coffin
“If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.” PeopleIfsFeelsInterestLaughingComedyDoorsEgoChecksFeel GoodEntertainingSoleMaking People Laugh Author:Dwayne Johnson
“The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before” ChildrenRunningLaughingDoorsLandWineRoseRunning AwayClosingMeadowsNevermore Author:Johnny Mercer
“Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door” SometimesHardStuffRoomsLaughingDoorsMake Me Laugh Author:Garrison Keillor
“History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.” IfsI CanBookHelpingHappensLostLaughingDoorsSeaWindKeysPleaseHorseBoxesExcuseTricksCodeCavesPardonLabyrinthExcuse MeSure ThingCiphersWind Blowing Author:Carl Sandburg
“When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.” ThinkingShouldChildrenMotherNightLaughingDoorsMiddleBedSickWake UpMiddle Of The NightImpeccable Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“I wrote a mad, passionate letter to the best restaurant in the UK, Le Gavroche in London, and asked if I could work for them. They gave me a job as a dishwasher (Colin laughs). For me that was a joy because I had a foot in the door of this world class restaurant. Just being around the buzz and the pots and pans and the wonderful food and all this produce that was coming in, that was the start of Paul Rankin the chef.” IfsWorldJobsJoyClassLaughingWonderfulDoorsFeetThis WorldProduceLettersMadPassionateLondonRestaurantsIf I CouldPotJust BeingChefBuzzWorld ClassDishwashersPots And Pans Author:Paul Rankin
“And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.” LittlesNextGamesHouseLeftHeavenStarsLaughingDoorsQuietGardenCatBallsWeatherKicksTwilightGatheringOld HousesGood Weather Author:Tony Parsons
“When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.” WarPastPassionLaughingFireDoorsMagicWallMake You Laugh Author:Lou Reed
“I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.” WayUsedLaughingSawsDoorsSubjectsWeightSizeStuckChairs Author:Roscoe Arbuckle
“The singer who really opened the door for me was Sarah Vaughan. But I listen to so much music, especially when I was growing up. My parents loved jazz music, so on Saturday [laughing] it would be the "Longine's Symphonettes," and on Sunday it was Mahalia Jackson.” Would BeParentLaughingGrowing UpGrowingDoorsJazzSingersSundaySaturdayJazz Music Author:Dianne Reeves