Toni Morrison Quotes

When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

Give me an honest laugher.

I find it easier to cry than I do to laugh convincingly. It's incredibly hard to pull off a laugh that feels natural take after take after take, that feels real. You can tell a fake laugh the minute you hear it, and that's something I really struggle with more than producing tears.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak.

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.

You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.

When I laugh hard, sometimes I wet my pants, but I'm always relieved because that means I'm having a good time.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.

We laughed a lot. That's one thing we forgot about for a few years - laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time.

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.

No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.

If you laugh, think, and cry; that's a full day.

Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.