Humor Quotes

No one will ever ask me to sing because it's beautiful. My secret is hiding my musicianship behind humor.

Apparently sometimes my humor is dryer than a desert.

The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.

When I was a little kid I always wanted to be ginger. My best friend was ginger and he was pretty cool.

I'd like to punch out a really old lady. There'd be no repercussions.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be Face. I thought, cos I had blond hair and he did too, that when I grew up I'd look like him.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

[Michael] Moore doesn't really use his sense of humor that much.

Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship.

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

Then Saturday Night Live spawns... well, everything right down to American Pie 9, where all humor has to be irrelevant, which can get a little tiring.

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

It [humor] inhabits the marginal.

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.

I don't like being preachy. I think using fun and humor is an excellent way to make people think.

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.

I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.

I’m glad you think so. I’ve always considered my sense of humor to be largely underappreciated, so it’s nice to finally meet a fan.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

I think humor and terror are very closely related.

Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.

I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

Mama is funny. She has a great sense of humor and loves a good joke. Loves a practical joke, too.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

I think that villains who are just brawn, muscles and weapons are boring. So I always try to find intelligence in my villains and also a sense of humor whenever that is possible.

In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.