Humor Quotes · Page 278

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line…

— Jill McCorkle

“Don’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.”

— Agatha Christie

“That’s quite the specific search...'Sadistic Old-Bag-Murdering Witches'—I can’t even begin to imagine what that involves.”

— Stacey T. Hunt

“In the spring of fifth grade, the boob fairy arrived with her wand and smacked Cassie wicked hard.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“I believe if I had a house in hell and a house in St. George, I'd rent out the one in St.…

— J. Golden Kimball

My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.

— Bowden Wyatt

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

— Ian Frazier

“But I ain't puttin' it in de street. Ah'm tellin' you.' 'Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“There are five types of laughter to choose from. You can giggle, chuckle, howl, chortle, and, in extreme cases when you’re wearing…

— Colin Nissan

“Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's…

— Alistair McHarg

“After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E.…

— Spencer Gordon

“Kishan stretched out his hand and touched and earring lightly. His rakish pirate about-to-make-off-with-your-woman-and-what-do-you-think-you're-gonna-do-about-it look melted away to a soft smile that…

— Colleen Houck

“The room fell silent. I frankly didn't know what I was going to do to help Eduardo, but I had the sense…

— Tod Goldberg

“There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners…

— Charles Dickens

I have been doing comedy for the last 15 years but I don't have any qualms admitting that I have learnt a…

— Kiku Sharda

I love the Comedy Cellar. The audience has no expectations because they don't know me. It's great. It's only winning - if…

— Gad Elmaleh

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.

— Shana Alexander

“I thanked him and he asked me if my cape got caught on stuff when I was running and jumping, and I…

— Joe R. Lansdale

“[...] I've learned something about my own hunches: the only time they turn out to be meaningful is when I ignore them.”

— Steven Brust

[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

“Why do people say available,actually they are not pertaining to...this is Bullshit!!”

— Nikhil Deshpande

'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.

— Bill Cosby

By the time I realized my parents were right, I had kids that didn't believe me.

— Hussein Nishah

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

— Jonah Hill

Nobody tried comedy in horror, and when I tried it ladies came to the theatre.

— Raghava Lawrence

I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be…

— Dash Mihok

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

— Hattie McDaniel

Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have…

— Elayne Boosler

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in…

— Jerry Seinfeld

“Folks, if you ever wake up feeling much better than originally anticipated, it’s probably because you’ve overslept.”

— Martin Reed

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

— Noel Fielding

I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, 'That's so wrong!' And that's 'Family Guy' to me.

— Elena Satine

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

— Eugenio Montale

I have a good sense of humour, and that's what kept me for the 30 years I was locked up.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

“She had a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of skin.”

— Neil Gaiman

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

— John Gunther

“Her dad's voice boomed from inside the house. "I've got a Glock, a shovel, and five acres of woods, Johnson!”

— Melissa Landers

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“You gotta love an old-fashioned word like "quarrelsome." Today she'd just be a bitch.”

— Deb Caletti

“Facebook has been spreading across the continents faster than a highly contagious Asian bird flu!”

— Gemini Adams