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  • It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice. -- Norman Wisdom
  • I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'. -- Stephen Lang
  • I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College. -- Natalie Babbitt
  • You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies. -- Danny DeVito
  • I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me. -- James Gray
  • When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal. -- David Chase
  • In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different. -- Lisa Cholodenko
  • The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. -- Beth Henley
  • I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years. -- Dick Van Dyke
  • I remember my first job, when I was working in a retail store down there, growing up in Laurel, Mississippi. I was making, like, $2.15 an hour. And I was taught how to responsibly handle those customer interactions. -- Marsha Blackburn
  • When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me. -- Dick Van Dyke
  • In Pennsylvania, I love the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington. It's a scenic area. We also enjoy visiting the Laurel Highlands in Western Pennsylvania. The mountains are really something to be seen, and it's a great area to be outside. -- Troy Polamalu
  • Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did. -- Aprilynne Pike
  • I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians. -- Steve Martin
  • Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry. -- J. Tillman
  • A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content. -- George Gilder
  • He'd been back for about two weeks, and everything in Laurel's life had been thrown into Chaos. Sexy, sexy chaos. -- Aprilynne Pike
  • The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought. -- Eudora Welty
  • I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv. -- Will Smith
  • Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . . -- Marsilio Ficino
  • Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter. -- Sara Shepard
  • Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it. -- Billy Crystal
  • Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot. -- John Lennon
  • Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged? -- Eudora Welty
  • There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass by the house where Frank Zappa was living and I'd just see people out on the porch playing guitars. -- June Millington
  • I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel. -- Walt Disney
  • As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'. -- Aprilynne Pike
  • I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant. -- Billy Crystal
  • He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel's heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del's hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist. -- Nora Roberts
  • Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. -- William Penn
  • When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart. -- Brian Williams
  • The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency. -- Dorothea Dix
  • Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. -- Jane Porter
  • The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. -- Evita Peron
  • When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young. -- Dick Van Dyke
  • The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him. -- Dorothea Dix
  • I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him. -- Dick Van Dyke
  • I do as much outdoor stuff as I can. What I've done is I bought a house in the middle of Hollywood, but I live in the forest. I literally live in an area that looks kind of like where I camped as a kid, but in the middle of Hollywood. It's called Laurel Canyon. -- Greg Cipes
  • Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered as a prize a not particularly expensive medal, a laurel wreath, and a bowl of beef stew. This was the race that, on one memorable occasion, nobody knew who actually won. -- Charlie Pierce
  • I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself. -- Steve Martin
  • One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy. -- Dick Van Dyke
  • Deathless laurel is the victor's due. -- John Dryden
  • Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon. -- Mary Kay Ash
  • You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow. -- Martial
  • The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. -- William Blake
  • The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame. -- Franz Grillparzer
  • Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. -- William C. Bryant
  • I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton. -- Albert Einstein
  • What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts. -- E. B. White
  • Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking. -- Popo Santos
  • Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time. -- Christina Rossetti
  • Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers! -- John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone. -- Christopher Marlowe
  • Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets. -- Lady Bird Johnson
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