Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Newhart

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

Gad Elmaleh

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

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.

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.

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.

Bob Newhart

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

Vince Vaughn

My sense of humor has served me well,

Kara Walker

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

Janis Joplin

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

Carol Bartz

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

Silas Weir Mitchell

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

Carlos Ponce

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

C. S. Lewis

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

Carol Burnett

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

Alan Coren

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Al Capone

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Charles Kingsley

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Charles Churchill

A joke's a very serious thing.

Brooks Atkinson

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Eckhart Tolle

Quality requires your Presence.

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.

D. H. Lawrence

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

Curly Howard

I tried to think but nothing happened!

Clarence Darrow

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Clarence Darrow

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

David Mamet

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

Don Herold

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Dylan Thomas

A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.