Humor And Quotes

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

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
- Tim Allen

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

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
- Maya Angelou

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
- Sergio Aragones

Yet you're helping me. Why? (Arik)
Nothing better to do. Eternity is boring. Really boring. I'm hoping that when you pop the seal on Atlantis, there will be a giant explosion to add some humor and interest to my life. If we're really lucky, Apollymi will come out and thoroughly entertain us with a massive fireworks display. Hell, if she does half of what she did last time, there will be belly rolls aplenty for those of us who hate the Olympians and humanity. (Solin)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
- Franklin D Roosevelt

If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth,
then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.
- Toba Beta

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
- Erma Bombeck

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
- Danny Boyle

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.
- Terry Bradshaw

I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children. -Alex
- Nicholas Sparks

She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.
- Nicholas Sparks

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
- Thomas Browne

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
- Carrie Brownstein

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.
- Michael Buble

Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness...
- Charles Bukowski

Miss Langman was often, in interviews, described as a witty conversationalist; how can a woman be witty when she hasn't a sense of humor? - and she has none, which was her central flaw as a person and as an artist.
- Truman Capote

(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
- Stanley Cavell

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
- Bill Cosby

He would be atleast sixteen-old enough to have a driver's licence- and he would have crinkles around his eyes that showed he had a sense of humor and he would be tall, the kind of boy all the other girls would like to date
- Beverly Cleary

He's like six hundred years younger than you are. I refuse to be the moral compass of our cell! Most weekends I have an intoxispell bong attached to my mouth like a respirator. I love scatological humor, and I list 'pranks involving nuclear waste' and 'making demons eat things' as my hobbies.
- Kresley Cole

This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right?
- Michael Cunningham

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.
- Christopher Paul Curtis

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
- Catherine Deneuve

i fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change..
- Ani Difranco

The problem is that we've got a sense of humor and (Republicans have) got guns. Will we die laughing?
- Thomas M Disch

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
- Freeman Dyson

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.
- Mike Epps

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
- Suzanne Fields

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.
- Matthew Fox

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
- Viktor E Frankl

Paris answered for him. "Last time he spread the flashing love, Reyes threw up all over his shirt. I never laughed so hard in my life. Lucien, though, has no sense of humor and vowed never to take us again."
"I'm surprised you didn't mention the part where you fainted," Lucien said wryly.
Strider chortled. "Oh, man. You fainted? What a baby!"
"Hey," Paris said, frowning at Lucien. "I told you I hit my head midflash."
Lucien
- Gena Showalter

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.
- Margaret George

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
- William Temple

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
- William Temple

Look, over the years, my unique sense of humor and perverse grasp of honesty may have led to some hurt feelings and long-held grudges. But overall, I'm a pretty likable person.
- Molly Harper

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
- Patricia Highsmith

But a system made secure by the protective plating of humor and pretense always runs the risk of having its protection get out of hand. A relationship based on jokes invites jokes; jokes about anything -- and jokes about anything are now and then bound to cut too close to the truth.
- Ken Kesey

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
- Allen Klein

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

I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humor and lots of small treats.
- Anne Lamott

What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing
- Willem Lange

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
- Sinclair Lewis

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
- Sinclair Lewis

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.
- Lisa Loeb

I loved so many things about him: that his fingers were always stained with paint or charcoal; his casual sense of humor and that he was loyal, to the endeven when I had lied so many times. He pursed his lips, highlighting his high and prominent cheekbones.
- Rebecca Maizel

So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.
- Steve Martin

Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.
- Judith Mcnaught

Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.
- Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out.
- Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure
- Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.
- Dan Millman

Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.
- Beth Moore

Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also change along with you. It takes hope, good humor, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It is hard, but worth it. You'll both be stronger as a result.
- Craig M Mullaney

Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.
- Paul Murray

Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, it's our own expectations that crush us. -- from Skippy Dies
- Paul Murray

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
- Bob Newhart

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.
- Peggy Noonan

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
- Shel Silverstein

I am proud of who you were, David-that hurt person who refused to "die." And I'm more caring, giving, fixing person, the guy with the same sense of humor and that deft, sensitive touch. Good on you, David I love you.
- Dave Pelzer

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
- Jesse Ventura

In life there are going to be some things that make it hard to smile. Through all the rain and pain you got to keep your sense of humor and smile for me now. Remember that.
- Tupac Shakur

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

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
- Adam Smith

The trick...is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.
- Wendy Wasserstein

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.
- Harvey Weinstein

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.
- Joss Whedon

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.
- Joy Williams