Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Puns are a form of humor with words.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

George Herbert

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Gertrude Stein

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

Gerald R. Ford

Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we participate....Despite all the heavy problems- domestic and international- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.

Jesse Eisenberg

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

George Romero

I don't like all the deferential humor, I think it detracts. Laugh with it, not at it.

Hunter S. Thompson

He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.

Hunter S. Thompson

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Honore de Balzac

In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

Horatio Nelson

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Tracy Morgan

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

Jason Mraz

Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.

Jack Benny

I gambled at the crap table all night and finally lost $8, but during that time the house gave me four drinks and two cigars, so it was still a lot cheaper than renting a room.

His humour is very much like his movies, one-liners, fast, off-the-cuff stuff. He's always been like that.

Michael Rose

He writes music that spins itself out indefatigably. There's a wonderful strain of humor there. It's quirky, often bizarre, there's an irreducible strangeness to his style. It's unlike any music I've ever heard.

I'll just find humor in it and let people be people.

How could you not? I do have a sense of humor.

Debbie Allen

It's rare to find parts where you see two women who relate to each other in that very natural way, with a lot of humor and pathos at the same time.

Manuel Puig

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Manuel Puig

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

Jonathan Kellerman

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Jon Stewart

For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't you know, it's interesting. I think we don't make things up. We just distill it to, hopefully, its most humorous nugget. And in that sense it seems faked and skewed just because we don't have to be subjective or pretend to be objective. We can just put it out there.

Jon Stewart

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

Ovid

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Martin Amis

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

Philippe Starck

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

Philippe Halsman

In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.

Peter Stone

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Peter Steele

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

Quentin Tarantino

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.