501 private quotes tagged humor

“Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.” — Jesse Ventura

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“Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.” — Mary Kay Blakely

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“The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.” — William Howard Taft

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“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

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“Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.” — James Wolcott

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“When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?” — Max Frisch

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“Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.” — Mark Russell

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“My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.” — Bret Michaels

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“Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.” — Russell Baker

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“I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.” — Dean Koontz

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“I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.” — Vera Farmiga

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“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.” — J. G. Ballard

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“I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.” — Horatio Nelson

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“Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.” — Peter Steele

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“I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.” — Betty White

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“It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.” — Freeman Dyson

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“I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.” — Antonio Banderas

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“If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.” — Alan Thicke

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“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

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“Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.” — Harvey Weinstein

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“There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system it could be a lot of different things.” — Jensen Ackles

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“I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.” — Cathy Guisewite

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“I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.” — Carmen Electra

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“I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.” — Paula Poundstone

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