Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mamet

It's only words... unless they're true.

Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Dan Simmons

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

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.

Davy Jones

And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Alfred Hitchcock

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

Justin Turner

Jamaal is real a humorous and entertaining guy.

Stephen J. Cannell

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

Mike Nichols

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

John Cornyn

I think you'll probably see not only his erudition, but his sense of humor.

He saw humor as a line of defense.

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Kristan Higgins

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

Kristan Higgins

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

Humor is key in getting through this journey. I needed to see the lighter side of life.

Romain Gary

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of mans superiority to all that befalls him.

Carl Hiaasen

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

I think it's sort of a trademark quality of New Orleans that people can usually find humor in the worst situations.

He ... had a sense of humor that is subject to interpretation, on women's rights for example,

He had problems remembering names. There was a lot of humor about that at his funeral.

Jasper Johns

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

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.

Clifton Fadiman

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Scott Adams

I get mail; therefore I am.

Shawnee Smith

With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.

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.

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.

Marley Shelton

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

Billy Graham

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.