Humor Quotes
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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.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
Sam Walton
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Virginia Woolf
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
Harland Williams
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
Patrick Wilson
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
Victor LaValle
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I'm not a strict vegetarian. I do eat beef and pork. And chicken. But not fish 'cause that's disgusting! How do you know when fish goes bad? It smells like fish either way! 'Hey this smells like a dumpster, lets eat it!'
Jim Gaffigan
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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.
Ian Frazier
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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
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You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Andy Rooney
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
Carl Hiaasen
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
Madeleine Stowe
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I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book deal, and I think it certainly contributes to people's view of me as a person with a sense of humor, which is only helpful in my industry.
Laura Benanti
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When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
Will Rogers
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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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
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
Zoey Deutch
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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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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
Florenz Ziegfeld
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes