"Laura's smile could light up a room and her infectious laughter will be remembered by many for years to come," her family said in a statement to Newsday.
"But will you take it - if they give you?" A smile.
One day, though, I got to ask him the big question: "Tell me sir, why do you think they haven't given you the Nobel prize?" After a long pause and an amused smile, he replied, "Well, it is a European prize, and only once in a while, when they find you worthy, do they give it out to non-Europeans".
Tsotie's habitual warm smile is notably absent as she talks about the erstwhile occupant of room number six.
"The stumps don't move," Wood replied, with a smile.
This third collection by the Irish poet is full of luminous imagery and sometimes a gentle, almost wistful, touch, as in "Brigie": "When you smile in your sleep / I think of the seal's tail / whispering above the waves, / slipping back again into the deep".
"I'm not saying anything," Lehmann responded with a smile.
Salmond, almost visibly relieved that his self-imposed campaigning ban for the duration of the Games was drawing to an end, replied with a smile: "Ask me tomorrow".
And after Thatcher's memorable fall in November 1990, her predecessor wore Westminster's widest, toothiest smile and borrowed one of her own phrases: "Rejoice, rejoice".
The first time we see through the painted smile to something more desolate…" After that, Stott suggests, there was always something discomforting about the person behind the mask.
