Famous Quotes
- 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 on Humor
- If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.
- If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
- Jennifer Jones on Humor
- If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
- If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.
- If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
- Laura Schlessinger on Humor
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- Francis Bacon on Humor
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
- Horace Walpole on Humor
- In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
- George Herbert on Humor
- In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
- Alanis Morissette on Humor
- In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative fight, flee - or laugh.
- Robert Orben on Humor
- In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer on Humor
- In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
- Jeremy Renner on Humor
- In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson on Humor
- Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.
- Emmett Kelly on Humor
- Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
- Suzanne Fields on Humor
- It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.
- Scott Adams on Humor
- It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.
- Michelle Williams on Humor
- It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
- Edward De Bono on Humor
- It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
- Freeman Dyson on Humor
- It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Humor
- It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
- Max Eastman on Humor
- It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
- Edgar Rice Burroghs on Humor
- It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.
- Rachael Ray on Humor
- It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
- It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.
- Sloane Crosley on Humor
- It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.
- Margaret Cho on Humor
- It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.
- Jon Favreau on Humor
- It's hard to force creativity and humor.
- Al Yankovic on Humor
- It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
- Dan Simmons on Humor
- It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
- Jerry Leiber on Humor
- It's very hard to write humor.
- Mark Strand on Humor
- It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
- Betty White on Humor
- Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
- Chad Smith on Humor
- Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
- John Kricfalusi on Humor
- Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
- Wavy Gravy on Humor
- Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
- Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act if it weren't, more women would do it.
- Kate Clinton on Humor
- Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
- Langston Hughes on Humor
- M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
- Loretta Swit on Humor
- Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
- Samuel Richardson on Humor
- Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.
- Robert Altman on Humor
- Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.
- Trey Parker on Humor
- Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
- Jonathan Swift on Humor
- Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
- Thomas Browne on Humor
- Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
- Lara Flynn Boyle on Humor
- Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
- Frank Moore Colby on Humor
- Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
- Bryan Cranston on Humor
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