Famous Quotes
- Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.
- Rashida Jones on Humor
- Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.
- Laura Ingraham on Humor
- Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
- Theodore Sturgeon on Humor
- Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.
- Sarah Silverman on Humor
- Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.
- Kyle Chandler on Humor
- Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
- Lee Westwood on Humor
- Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
- Margaret Cho on Humor
- Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
- Terrence Howard on Humor
- Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
- Shel Silverstein on Humor
- Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
- W. C. Fields on Humor
- Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
- John Ratzenberger on Humor
- Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
- Sergio Aragones on Humor
- That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
- A. Whitney Brown on Humor
- The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
- Stephen Sommers on Humor
- The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.
- Robin Roberts on Humor
- The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.
- Umberto Eco on Humor
- The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.
- Ray Romano on Humor
- The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
- The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
- William Temple on Humor
- The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
- William Temple on Humor
- The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.
- Nancy Cartwright on Humor
- The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
- Michael York on Humor
- The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.
- 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.
- Dan Castellaneta on Humor
- The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
- David Sedaris on Humor
- The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
- Robertson Davies on Humor
- The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
- Bert Williams on Humor
- The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
- Jacob August Riis on Humor
- The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
- James Thurber on Humor
- The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Humor
- The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.
- Geraldine Ferraro on Humor
- The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
- Karen Hughes on Humor
- The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
- Arthur Hailey on Humor
- The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
- The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'
- Billy Gardell on Humor
- The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
- Adam Carolla on Humor
- The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.
- Marlo Thomas on Humor
- The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
- Peter De Vries on Humor
- The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.
- Stephen Collins on Humor
- The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
- Mark Twain on Humor
- The secret to humor is surprise.
- The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
- Alice Meynell on Humor
- The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
- Jason Alexander on Humor
- The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
- Alfred North Whitehead on Humor
- The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.
- Andre Rieu on Humor
- There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
- David Duchovny on Humor
- There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.
- Rita Rudner on Humor
- There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system it could be a lot of different things.
- Jensen Ackles on Humor
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