Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Romano

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

Thomas Jefferson

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

Thomas Jefferson

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

Tamora Pierce

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

Tabitha Soren

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

Tab Hunter

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

Ron White

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

Ron Glass

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.

Ron Howard

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Rumi

Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

Tom Robbins

America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

Tom Robbins

From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels on every lot, and no matter how often it tossed the dice you just knew it would never land on Go to Jail, it would be forever passing Go and collecting $200.

Tom Robbins

The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

Tom Robbins

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

Tom Lehrer

Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.

Tom Lehrer

Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

Vikram Seth

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

V. S. Pritchett

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

Suzanne Collins

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

Suzanne Collins

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.

Suzanne Collins

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

Suzanne Collins

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

Suzanne Collins

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

Suzanne Collins

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

Stephen Leacock

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

Stephen King

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Stephenie Meyer

Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.

Stephen Colbert

Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time - of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty .... Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.

Victor Kiam

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Victor Borge

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Robert Frost

An idea is a feat of association.