Humor Quotes
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
Victor LaValle -
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
Dan Castellaneta
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If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.
Salma Hayek -
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge -
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes -
I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
Fatty Arbuckle -
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
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Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson -
Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
Tcheky Karyo -
The Muslims in the Cape are associated with having a very good sense of humor.
Riaad Moosa -
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
J. G. Ballard -
It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
T. C. Boyle -
One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.
J. J. Abrams
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
Kate Beckinsale -
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
Vera Farmiga -
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.
Petrarch -
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
Carl Hiaasen -
I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
Rainn Wilson -
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
Tabitha Soren
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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
Manuel Puig -
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Virginia Woolf -
My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
Warwick Davis