Hillary DePiano famous quotes

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.
-- Hillary DePiano

#Laughter #Laughing #World

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.
-- Hillary DePiano

#Mother #New Year #Differences

You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.
-- Hillary DePiano

#Past #Mind #Excited

Molly: You don't like New Years Eve? Are you insane? It's literally the best holiday ever. You just party all night and it doesn't matter what stupid stuff you do because the year's over and you get a brand new start in the morning.
-- Hillary DePiano

#New Year #Morning #Stupid

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

I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, "Men can't brew. Chicha made by men would only make gas in the belly. You are a funny man! Beer is women's work."

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

I want to make people laugh.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.

First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.