Humor Quotes - page 26

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. (George Saunders)
Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience. View quote
Joshua Ferris
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. View quote
Joshua Foer
I find the humor in life, and laugh easily. View quote
Doreen Virtue
My sense of humor often gets me in trouble. View quote
Duncan Jones
It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair. View quote
Amy Bloom
I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value. View quote
Amy Schumer
When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny. View quote
Elif Batuman
I think humor is a really important way of creating solidarity - like, through humor you can make people realize that certain situations, where they thought they were alone, are actually shared by everyone. View quote
Elif Batuman
As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style. View quote
Enrique Vila-Matas
When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks. (Erin Morgenstern)
I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage. View quote
Kyle Chandler
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns. View quote
Karen Marie Moning
My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.' View quote
Kevin Hart
Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can. View quote
Claire LaZebnik
Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He's just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don't see anything twisted about it. It's sort of ridiculous and wacky. It's sort of fun. View quote
Christopher Lloyd
Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it. (Lisa Lutz)
Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones. View quote
Lisa Lutz
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you. View quote
Michael Caine
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right. View quote
John Ortberg
My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. View quote
Michael Fox