Quotes of: Humorous Keyword

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

Jen Lancaster

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T.S. Eliot

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

Mitt Romney

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Al Franken

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

H. G. Wells

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Alfred North Whitehead

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Chevy Chase

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Carl Hiaasen

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

Janet Evanovich

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

James Gray

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

Jerry Leiber

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

John Wells

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Langston Hughes

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

Lawrence Kasdan

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Lorrie Moore

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

Manuel Puig

To me, 'Scream' is a masterpiece on every level - the performances, the humor, the tone - it's just flawless.

Marley Shelton

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

Matthew Weiner

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Robert Benchley

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Roy Blount, Jr.