Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Jennings

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

Robert Mankoff

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Mallory Ortberg

Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

John Scalzi

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

Diane Keaton

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Dennis Ritchie

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

Edsger Dijkstra

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Carlos Ponce

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

Eddie Vedder

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

Carroll O'Connor

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Angela Carter

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Dario Fo

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

Isaac Watts

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

Katherine Hough

This has a lot of satire in it.

G. H. Hardy

There's a lot of satire in Mardi Gras. We also take shots at ourselves. We may be down but we're not out.

Mark Lisanti

It's satire it's my own twisted sense of humor, The Wizard of Oz.

P. J. O'Rourke

Satire doesn't effect change.

Gore Vidal

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.