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Jokes In Quotes

Oh, I don't know. I prefer to think that when they're at home, the Silent Brothers are much like us. Playing practical jokes in the Silent City, making toasted cheese-"
"I hope they play charades," said Tessa Dryly. "It would seem to take advantage of their natural talents.
- Cassandra Clare

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
- Ernest Hemingway

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
- Dick Bruna

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
- Frank Dane

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
- Larry David

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
- Bobby Farrelly

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.
- Noel Fielding

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.
- Megan Fox

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
- Steven Moffat

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.
- Tom Robbins

I went to school to be a comedian. I was always cracking jokes in class. And after they were cracked, the teacher would try to put them back together.
- Jarod Kintz

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

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
- Norm Macdonald

She used to write all the time,' Elizabeth explained, 'before she lost all that weight. Remember? When she was the butt of everyone's jokes instead of the girl all the boys want to date?
- Francine Pascal

The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.
- Simon Pegg

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.
- Emo Philips

As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered, "A loving husband and devoted father," though in reality, he jokes in "Riding Rockets," "I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.
- Mary Roach

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
- Yahoo Serious

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
- Emma Thompson

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