Quotes of: Humorous Keyword

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Washington Irving

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

John Cassavetes

I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.

Harry Knowles

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

Betty White

Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.

Win Butler

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

Jonathan Ames

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

George Santayana

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

James Taylor

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

Steve Jobs

There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.

Rick Moranis

But to be a parent is to live in the past-present-future all at once. It is to hug your children and be intensely aware of how much smaller they felt last year ... even as you wonder how much bigger they will feel the next. It is to be a time-shifter...

Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd

I had heard my brothers and sisters use curse words but had never dared use one myself in front of anyone. But I had practiced alone in my room lots of times, trying out different cadences and into nations: 'Fuck, fuck, fuck you, fucknut. Shit, shits...

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

I warned you; I warned you I was the Senses Taker," sneered the Senses Taker. "I help people find what they're looking for, hear what they're listening for, run after what they're chasing, and smell what isn't even there. And, furthermore," he cackle...

The Phantom Tollbooth

We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidenti...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

uma heroína baixinha com sentido de humor, sensibilidade e sensualidade, com oitenta quilos de peso, inteligente e arguta, venderia menos livros?

A Cidade dos Sete Mares

What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.

Four Spirits

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

The Braindead Megaphone

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

Arcadia

Without humor, we’d all be what we’re laughing at. Without arrogance, we’d be humiliated to admit we already are.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Humor is not an end in itself, but a tool to understanding. A dense head must be tickled with an ax.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic