Erin McKean Quotes.

11. "I like someone who laughs, but not all the time, and not too loud. I like it when someone laughs at the world, and not at someone in particular — when some particularly absurd thing happens, not just someone falling down."
- Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses

12. "I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you."
- Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses

13. "And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they taste good enough to justify getting that sugar all over everything, especially me."
- Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses

14. "sounds and movements of the face and body that are the instinctive expressions of lively amusement and sometimes also of contempt or derision: she couldn't help laughing at his jokes; he laughed out loud | [with direct speech] she laughed, Not a chance. - (laugh at) ridicule; scorn. - (laugh something off) dismiss something embarrassing, unfortunate, or potentially serious by treating it in a lighthearted way or making a joke of it. - (be laughing) INFORMAL be in a fortunate or successful position: if next year's model is as successful, Ford will be laughing. ■ n. 1 an act of laughing: she gave a loud, silly laugh. 2 (a laugh) INFORMAL a thing that causes laughter or derision: that's"
- Erin McKean, The New Oxford American Dictionary

15. "laugh a minute very funny: it's a laugh a minute when Lois gets together with her dad. □ laugh out of the other side of one's mouth be discomfited after feeling satisfaction or confidence about something: you'd be laughing out the other side of your mouth if we were sitting in jail right now. □ laugh someone/something out of court dismiss with contempt as being obviously ridiculous. □ laugh oneself silly (or sick) laugh uncontrollably or for a long time. □ laugh something to scorn DATED ridicule something. □ laugh up one's sleeve be secretly or inwardly amused. □ no laughing matter something serious that should not be joked about: heavy snoring is no laughing matter. □ play something for laughs (of a performer) try to arouse laughter in an"
- Erin McKean, The New Oxford American Dictionary

16. "laugh·ing hy·e·na n. another term for SPOTTED HYENA. Linked entries: SPOTTED HYENA ■ laugh·ing jack·ass n. AUSTRAL. the laughing kookaburra. See KOOKABURRA. Linked entries: KOOKABURRA ■ laugh·ing·ly adv. with amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness: we finally reached what we laughingly called civilization. in an amused way; with laughter. laugh·ing·stock n."
- Erin McKean, The New Oxford American Dictionary

17. "laugh·ing thrush n. a gregarious thrushlike babbler of South and Southeast Asia, typically with dark gray or brown plumage and a boldly marked head, and having a cackling call.  Genus Garrulax, family Timaliidae: many species. Laugh·lin a community in southern Arizona, across the Colorado River from Bullhead City; pop. 4,791. laugh·ter n. the action or sound of laughing: he roared with laughter. Old English hleahtor, of Germanic origin; related to German Gelächter, also to LAUGH. Linked"
- Erin McKean, The New Oxford American Dictionary

18. "born in England. He is remembered for character roles such as Henry VIII (The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933) and Captain Bligh (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935); he also played Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). launce n. another term for SAND EEL. early 17th cent.: early variant of LANCE (because of its shape). Linked entries: SAND EEL ■ LANCE ■ Laun·ce·lot variant spelling of LANCELOT. Linked entries: LANCELOT ■ launch 1 v. [trans.]"
- Erin McKean, The New Oxford American Dictionary

19. "by pushing it or allowing it to roll into the water: the town's lifeboat was launched to rescue the fishermen. - set (a newly built ship or boat) afloat for the first time, typically as part of an official ceremony: King Gustav II Adolph of Sweden launched a huge new warship. - send (a missile, satellite, or spacecraft) on its course or into orbit: they launched two Scud missiles. - [trans.] hurl (something) forcefully: she launched a tortoiseshell comb. - [with adverbial of direction] (launch oneself) (of a person) make a sudden energetic movement: I launched myself out of bed. - utter (criticism or a threat) vehemently: scores of customers launched a volley of complaints. 2 start or set in motion (an activity or enterprise): she was launching"
- Erin McKean, The New Oxford American Dictionary

20. "publication) to the public for the first time: the company has launched a software package specifically for the legal sector. ■ n. an act or an instance of launching something: the launch of a new campaign against drinking and driving. an occasion at which a new product or publication is introduced to the public: a book launch. □  launch into begin (something) energetically and enthusiastically: he launched into a two-hour sales pitch. □  launch out make a start on a new and challenging enterprise: she wasn't brave enough to launch out by herself. Middle English (in the sense 'hurl a missile, discharge with force'): from Anglo-Norman French launcher, variant"
- Erin McKean, The New Oxford American Dictionary