Robin McKinley Quotes

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will.

Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and that doesn't necessarily manifest itself in completely different ways.

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

If there's a feeling you have, other people have it. If there's something weird about your life, other people have lived it. If there's something kooky about your body, other people have that, too. We're not alone. There's some kind of tremendous relief in that and I think it can only be expressed in belly laughter. This tremendous relief that happens the millisecond we realize, it's not just me. That's what good laughter is about. It's about knowing that you're not alone.

There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic.

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

When there's characters out there that don't have humor, I don't find them as believable, because we all have humor, no matter what level it is, we all use it every day, no matter what situation we're in, we'll try and have a bit of a laugh even if it goes wrong.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.