Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Newhart

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

Laura Schlessinger

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Bruce Nauman

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

Jeff Foxworthy

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

John Perry Barlow

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

James Gleick

Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

Lauren Willig

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.

Jerry Seinfeld

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Jeff Ross

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

Jeff Ross

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Albert Einstein

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

Adam Sandler

It's important I surround myself with people who make me happy.

Tyler, The Creator

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

A. E. Housman

This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.

A. E. Housman

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

Alison Jackson

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

Betty White

I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

Bob Newhart

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

Bob Newhart

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Jerome K. Jerome

Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

Colm Meaney

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

E. W. Howe

If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

Elizabeth McCracken

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'

Elizabeth McCracken

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

Fatty Arbuckle

I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

Ian Frazier

With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

Barry Eisler

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Marley Shelton

To me, 'Scream' is a masterpiece on every level - the performances, the humor, the tone - it's just flawless.

Paul Simon

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Kin Hubbard

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Kurt Vonnegut

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.