Humorous Quotes
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Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )
Seymour Cray
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All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
George Bernard Shaw
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You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
Steve Jobs
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An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Constance Rourke
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With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn't use on the court. It's fun, and I don't take myself too seriously. I have good broadcast teams with me, but I'm not a huge stats guy. I think they post the numbers too quickly, and I'd rather let the match play out a bit first.
John McEnroe
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The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
Mike Figgis
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My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
Mike Myers
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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room
Mercedes McCambridge
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If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.
Jo Brand
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
Moses Hadas
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'Dad's Army' show was a military thing but also very funny, so it's kind of the two things that I experienced by being a soldier, and I found it very humorous then and there, because of the juxtapositions and me and my emotional state.
Rhys Darby
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Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.
Will Shetterly
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I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
William Francis Buckley
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I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.
Mike McCurry
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I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.
Jim Gaffigan
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Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.
David First
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Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
William Gilbert
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Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.
William H. Ginsburg
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The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.
Richard Lederer
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When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
John Prine
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Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
Michael Eric Dyson
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I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives from the inside out. I write humorous poems to tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.
Charles Ghigna
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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Rex Stout
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
Erma Bombeck