David Levithan Quotes

It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

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.

Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

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.

You make me laugh like a loon on loon tablets!

The laugh is what trumps everything.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it.

There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.

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

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

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

But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!

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.

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.