Funny Quotes - page 7

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. (John Green (author))
The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris [Life ends but not love], is a lie, useless and not even funny. View quote
Stanisław Lem
Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity. View quote
James Berardinelli
Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing. There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good." View quote
James Berardinelli
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. View quote
Mark Twain
The funniest things are the forbidden. View quote
Mark Twain
Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works. View quote
Sherman Alexie
Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it. View quote
Craig Ferguson
Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form. View quote
Craig Ferguson
The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray. View quote
Barack Obama
Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know he - oh, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on those dollar bills. (Barack Obama)
Zuko saysThermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, so it doesn't bother you any more. View quote
Arnold Sommerfeld
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. View quote
William Feather
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that. View quote
Arthur Miller
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing." View quote
Quentin Crisp
Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine. View quote
Larry Wall
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. View quote
Albert Einstein
So where are the strong And who are the trusted? And where is the harmony? Sweet harmony - 'cause each time I feel it slippin away, it just makes me wanna cry: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding? View quote
Nick Lowe
I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake. View quote
Jimmy Carr
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. (Michael Morpurgo)
It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out. View quote
Markus Zusak
It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more. View quote
Matt Groening
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories. View quote
Matt Groening
We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff. View quote
Matt Groening