Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen J. Cannell

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

He saw humor as a line of defense.

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.

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

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.

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.

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

Woody Allen

At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

Woody Allen

Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Trey Parker

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

Wayne Dyer

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

Samuel Goldwyn

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

W. C. Fields

Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents)

Winifred Holtby

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

Yakov Smirnoff

In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.

Jennifer Jones

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Judy Gold

I love the vulgar. I kind of have the humor of a 17-year-old boy.

Milarepa

Towards the end of our stay in Uruguay, Osho had started choosing questions of mine that had a humorous potential, ones he could use to make everyone - including himself! - laugh. In the first few weeks after I arrived, the tone of his discourses was quite serious: a lot of politics and talk about the world situation and so on. It provoked my mischievous side, so I would try to provoke him as well - and that divine smile of his - with my questions.

Joseph Addison

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Kevin Rudd

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

Kevin Spacey

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

Khalil Gibran

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

Kerry Packer

Never complain, never explain personal motto of

Jonathan Swift

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Napoleon Hill

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

Ronald Knox

The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Henry Ford

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

James Joyce

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

James Goldsmith

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

Laurence Sterne

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.