Humorous Quotes
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There's an incredible amount of pain involved in being a human, but this humorous stuff is essential in overcoming it.
John Grant
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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 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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3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
Seymour Cray
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I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
William Shakespeare
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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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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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My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
Mike Myers
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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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The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
Mike Figgis
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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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Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
William Gilbert
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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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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
Moses Hadas
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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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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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You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'
Tommy Cooper
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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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When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
John Prine
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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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'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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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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The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
Stephen Sondheim
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The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.
Richard Lederer