Quotes of: Sense-of-humor Keyword

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

Amy Seimetz

Humor to a man is like a feather pillow. It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.

Irish

Life is too hard to maintain a constantly serious outlook. You have to laugh at yourself and the world now and then―see humor in undesirable circumstances, even harsh situations―or you will either rot from the inside or go stark-raving mad. Humor...

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sometimes to move forward, you have to find yourself backwards.

Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing in 30 Religions

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Edward de Bono

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

Gary Shteyngart

'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious...

Mary Lynn Rajskub

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

Robert Mankoff

Cosmo Brown: Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.

Singin' in the Rain

I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.

Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing in 30 Religions

I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when somet...

Amanda Peet

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all rig...

Robert Mankoff

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talkin...

Ray Romano

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

Tom Wolfe

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and ...

Aleksey Igudesman

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

Sam Walton

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

Allen Klein

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

Robert Anton Wilson

...what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history...

Tales from Toothaker: How We Used Humor, Hard Work, and Hand-Me-Downs to Create an Island Home

'Everwood' I think provides a unique feeling, an emotional experience. And other shows on TV don't have the acting talent to do that. Each one of our actors can do a serious scene and a humorous scene, and can do it all within the same sequence. They...

Greg Berlanti