Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

Merrick had a sense of humor and could joke about his condition.

Joanna Lumley

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

Victor LaValle

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

Alex Trebek

Viewers know that I have a weird sense of humor, but that I'm serious about the game,

Jo Brand

If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.

James Thomas Fields

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

James Taylor

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

James Thurber

Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

James Thurber

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

James Thurber

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

James Thurber

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

James Thurber

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

James P. Hogan

Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.

John Denver

Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die.

John Candy

As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.

Joan Rivers

"I've learned what's funny verbally ain't so funny on e-mail: They don't hear your intonations. Melissa broke up with somebody over that. She tried to tell him: "That was a joke!" But he just didn't get it. Mick Jagger said, "F- 'em if they don't get the joke." And I love him. That comes with age: Knowing it's their problem, not mine."

Joan Rivers

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

Jimmy Fallon

Whenever I'm stuck in traffic, I can't help but wonder, 'Where did the creator of The Jetsons go, and why hasn't he done something about this?'

Garrison Keillor

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

Garrison Keillor

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Garrison Keillor

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

Robert Frost

All the fun's in how you say a thing

Edward Albee

The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

Eckhart Tolle

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

Hermann Hesse

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Kevin Rudd

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

Kevin Spacey

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

Khalil Gibran

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

Kerry Packer

Never complain, never explain personal motto of

Jonathan Swift

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Napoleon Hill

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule