Quotes of: Sense-of-humor Keyword

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward de Bono

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

Elaine Stritch

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

Herb Caen

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Justin Halpern

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

John Ratzenberger

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Romain Gary

If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

Richard Lewis

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Rita Rudner

Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

Sandra Bullock

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

Suzanne Fields

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Shel Silverstein

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

William Collins

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Allen Klein

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

Ron Shock

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

Bahman Ghobadi

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

Natalie Merchant

It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.

The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.

The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure ...

The Sense of an Ending