Humor Quotes

I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.

Nigel Cole

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

Ronald Knox

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

Leila Josefowicz

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

Liza Minnelli

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

Theodore Sturgeon

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Shawn Wayans

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.

Cheryl Hines

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Christopher Hitchens

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Barbet Schroeder

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

Ernest Hemingway

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

Max Irons

Yes! I'm ! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I ! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!

Terry Pratchett

The doctor says he has to amputate all of me.

Steven Wright

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

Cassandra Clare

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

Steven Wright

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

James Thurber

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

J.K. Rowling

Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove.

Jodi Picoult

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurber

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

Terry Pratchett