Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Lange

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

Peter Jennings

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

Piers Anthony

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Phyllis Diller

Becoming a comedienne was my way of adjusting to puberty.

Phyllis Diller

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

Konrad Lorenz

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Konrad Lorenz

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

Thomas Carlyle

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

Thomas Carlyle

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Steve Martin

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

Steve Buscemi

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

Stanislaw Lem

Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

Stanislaw Lem

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

Stanislaw Lem

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

Stanislaw Lem

I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove And in our bound partition never part.

Lisa Kleypas

Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.

Lisa Guerrero

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

Lawrence Kasdan

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

Lady Gaga

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

Toby Young

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.

Ronald Reagan

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.

Ronald Reagan

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

Ronald Reagan

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.

Ronald Reagan

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

Sam Levenson

The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.

Simon Pegg

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Tim Allen

Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Steven Wright

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

Steven Wright

A metaphor is like a simile.

Steven Wright

I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

Sean O'Casey

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.