Michael Stuhlbarg

Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

American Actor

Jeremy Irons

Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.

English Actor

William Shakespeare

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

English Playwright

Peter Falk

The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.

Alexander Pope

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

English Poet

Ken Berry

There's something about a fall that tickles people. I can't explain why.

Gregory H. Johnson

I'm just tickled pink that I'll be on Endeavour's last flight.

American Astronaut

Barbara Corcoran

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

American Businesswoman

Paul Whiteman

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

American Celebrity

Leslie Jones

My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

American Comedian

Used when the touch causes involuntary movements or laughter, not always comfortable for everyone.

Physically Stimulating

Often occurs in a playful, affectionate context among friends, family, or couples.

Playful Interaction

It metaphorically implies something is pleasantly stimulating one's interest or curiosity.

Metaphorical Use

Used to describe non-physical situations, such as an idea or joke, appealing to someone.

Figurative Expression

Refers to a faint, often unexpected feeling on your skin or in your throat.

Sensory Reaction

Can describe an ambiguous sensation that's hard to identify, not always related to laughter.

Non-Physical Sensation

The action is usually a sign of fondness or play meant to provoke laughter.

Affectionate Gesture

Tickling should be a mutual and pleasant experience; not everyone enjoys being tickled.

Consent Matters

Used to describe someone feeling very happy and pleasantly surprised by something.

Emotionally Uplifting

Tickled pink is a casual phrase, more common in personal conversations than formal writing.

Informal Expression

 humans are the only animals that laugh. Nietzsche thought that humans are the only animals that laugh. In fact, you find laughter throughout the mammals. It's been well-described and well-observed in primates, but you also see it in rats, and wherever you find it -- humans, primates, rats -- you find it associated with things like tickling.

Why we laugh PIPE Sophie...

 And we replay that to the other hand with a time delay. Either no time delay, in which case light would just tickle your palm, or with a time delay of two-tenths of three-tenths of a second. So the important point here is the right hand always does the same things -- sinusoidal movement.

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 And I thought the best way to do that would be through a comedy show. And that is what I did. I wrote a comedy show that did not respect the punchline, that line where comedians are expected and trusted to pull their punches and turn them into tickles. I did not stop.

Three ideas. Three...

 to dethrone the leader, which may take two or three months where they're testing all the coalitions in the group, they also become extremely generous. They share food very easily with everyone. Or they start to tickle the babies of the females.

The surprising science...

 Another hypothesis was that worm grunting tickled their bodies, so they emerged to end the aggravation. Whimsical! But worm grunting vibrates the ground’s surface. If worms were evading the vibrations, wouldn't they burrow deeper instead?

This weird trick will...

 I laid our towels down just out of reach of the surf and fell asleep. And when I woke up, I saw my daughter drizzling sand on her arm like this, and I could feel that light tickle of sand on her skin

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 it just may be the one that tickles her the best the male is using what's called his mating sperm the last vestige of what was a hind laid in his lizard

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 and if you tickle us, do we not laugh?" It is our humanity, and all the potential within it, that makes us beautiful. Thank you.

It's not fair having 12...

 and covered in living skin she can feel the tickling on her shell to encourage the service a turtle adopts a special posture

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 sadness tickles so afraid to dream cause dreams are costly and I won't believe the lies God k-keep give me a life yeah

Tickle

To touch lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.

Often appears as...

To appeal to, to please, or to stimulate interest.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

A light sensation, often causing laughter or twitching movements.

An act or instance of tickling someone or something.

To cause a peculiar thrilling sensation.

Usage tips

Physically Stimulating

Playful Interaction

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