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 It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one. - Rick Riordan Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are. - Katherine Center When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing. - Erin Duffy The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. - W...

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 Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too. - Margaret Mahy The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying. - Lea Thompson

The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it. - Jodi Picoult America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same jokes. One has done (or been) the show so long that one can do it in one's own sleep. - James Baldwin I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show. - Samantha Bee Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. - Robert Frost One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it f...

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 sto...

During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing. He could tell the difference between the blowing noise the male made and the sighing blow of the female. 'They are good,' he said. 'They play and make jokes and love one another. They are our brothers like the flying fish. - Ernest Hemingway We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. - Fred Allen Bathroom, huh? OK.' she tittered nervously. 'I'll carry you. Just don't pee on me.' Helen laughed gratefully. Aridane was making an embarrassing situation as humorous as possible so Helen would feel more comfortable. It was something Claire would have done. Helen was still embarrassed, but with a few jokes and little bit of tact they both made it through. - Josephi...

And spare me the jokes about scoring." "Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?" "It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time. - Cassandra Clare The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda. - Heywood Broun All the jokes about men sitting down on their hats are really theological jokes; they are concerned with the Dual Nature of Man. They refer to the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. - Gilbert K Chesterton Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us us humans death is so sad that we must laugh at it. - Robert A Heinlein I don't care w...

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories - Stephen Chbosky What's painful is that what you had together, all your inside jokes and favorite restaurants and that movie you both loved but everyone else hatedthat's gone, and there's no replacement for it, you never replicate it, never get to have it ever again... - Kim Culbertson The thing about all good horror movies is that the fans expect a couple of inside jokes. Maybe I'm supposed to be saying how terrified I was while making it, but it was really fun. - Margot Kidder That's how inside jokes usually are. Funny to those inside, annoying as shit to the rest of the world. - Siobhan Vivian

Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchallthe blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill. - Emily Giffin If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead. - Nikki Sixx 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 I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion. - Alexei Sayle

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work. - Abraham Lincoln I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold. - Bernhard Langer I can't crack jokes because I don't have any. - Rene Redzepi I live right next to a grocery store and I don't know if it's the bachelor in me, but I just go in and shop for what I need for the day. I'm an idiot because I don't shop for the whole week. The check out clerks always crack jokes about the fact that I'm in there sometimes twice a day. - Seann William Scott