Quotes about humorous
humorous mean sarcasm
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur." Arthur Conan Doyle
humorous sarcasm race
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
humorous athlete sarcasm
One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!
humorous sarcasm thinking
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.
humorous sarcasm wings
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?
humorous drinking mean
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
humorous mean sarcasm
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
humorous should-have quirky
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal. Bob Costas
humorous mad disease
I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow. Billy Connolly
humorous management deviation
Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan. Brian Tracy
humorous want done
Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.
humorous dope smoking
How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton? Brian Boyle
humorous actors casual
You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work. Brendan Coyle
humorous cards records
The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. Dennis Ritchie
humorous power profound
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. Ashleigh Brilliant
humorous profound insane
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
humorous office since small
Since it's a very small car, I don't have much office space.
humorous sarcasm wells
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
humorous sarcasm science
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
humorous sarcasm advancement
An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
humorous sarcasm reason
I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.
humorous sarcasm age
I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.
humorous sarcasm names
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
humorous eye sarcasm
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.
humorous use foundation
I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous. Bahman Ghobadi
humorous eye balls
The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it. Dizzy Dean
humorous phones comedy
That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring. Jeff Foxworthy
humorous lunch views
Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good. Jerome K. Jerome
humorous trouble ill
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
humorous hands world
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.
humorous beer bottles
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer. Janis Joplin
humorous kids boys
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. C. S. Lewis
humorous fools-day two
I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. Alan Coren