Quotes of: Roberts Keyword

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

Bob Hope

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Lynda Barry

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Lionel Trilling

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

Maurice Sendak

As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.

Nathan Lane

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Samuel Richardson

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

Twyla Tharp

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

Jeff Hawkins

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Kanye West

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

Marco Tempest

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Norman Granz

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Pat Robertson

Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it.

Ross Levinsohn

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Duane Michals

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

Christie Hefner

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

Harry Melling

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

Clint Eastwood

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark