Humor Quotes - page 39

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries. (Michael Moore)
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. View quote
Robert Benchley
Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor. View quote
Robert Benchley
If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor. View quote
Kate Beckinsale
The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal. View quote
Harold S. Kushner
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world like grace and shines on everybody. View quote
Garrison Keillor
People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope. View quote
Carmen Electra
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me. (Marilyn Manson)
One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality. View quote
J. J. Abrams
Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college. View quote
Seth MacFarlane
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies. View quote
Seth MacFarlane
I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering. View quote
Matthew McConaughey
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in 'dialect' and humor in slang. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Humor is a part of spirituality. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things. (Jensen Ackles)
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. View quote
Maya Angelou
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance. Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his. View quote
Maya Angelou
You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor. View quote
Steven Wright