Humor Quotes
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Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.
Bix Beiderbecke
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There's a combination of things to survive the road trip. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating.
Brendan Benson
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I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.
Quentin Tarantino
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And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.
Walter Brueggemann
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Virginia Woolf
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Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable.
Jerry Coleman
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I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
William Collins
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We’re never satisfied when it comes to food. ‘You know what’d be good on this burger? A ham sandwich. Instead of a bun, let’s use two donuts. That way we can have it for breakfast. Look out McGriddle. Here comes the donut-ham-hamburger!’
Jim Gaffigan
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I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.
Amy Poehler
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Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.
Elizabeth Inchbald
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Now don't get me wrong, I love animals, but I like eatin' 'em more... fun to pet, better to chew.
Jim Gaffigan
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Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
Courteney Cox
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I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days.
Sarah Silverman
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I rang the bell of this small bed-and breakfast place, whereupon a lady appeared at an outside window. "What do you want?", she asked. "I want to stay here", I replied. "Well, stay there then", she said and closed the window.
Chic Murray
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You know you have a drinking problem when the bartender knows your name -- and you've never been to that bar before.
Zach Galifianakis
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For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do that.
Camille Henrot
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My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.
Bruce Bruce
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The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.
Chic Murray
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I think humor is often a very powerful tool to be able to express ideas that are heavy.
Camille Henrot
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It's a very important skill set for an actor to be able to bring the humor into any moment, whether you're doing drama or comedy.
Nathaniel Buzolic
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Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.
Jerry Coleman
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Viewers know that I have a weird sense of humor, but that I'm serious about the game.
Alex Trebek
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel