Humor Quotes
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
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You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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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.
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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.
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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
