John Morreall quotes

“The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach.”
-- John Morreall

Source : John Morreall (1983). “Taking Laughter Seriously”, p.108, SUNY Press

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“Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.”

“But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible”

“When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.”

“At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke”

“People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that,”

“It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?”

“I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality”

“I have a very dark sense of humor.”

“Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.”

“I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.”

Source : "'Zoolander': Ben Stiller Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.