“Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections.… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
“Trojan, Durex, Lifestyles, Trojan Magnum (oh yeah, my three foot cock definitely needed those), Contempo, Vivid and Rough Rider. Seriously? There was… — Tara Sivec Copy Share Image
In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“Live in the present. Don't think about things that aren't happening. Definitely don't think about eating cheeseburgers when you're not eating cheeseburgers.… — Amber heart Copy Share Image
I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“Maybe because you're thinking right now that my tractor's sexy." Colby winked at her. Emma's face turned a shade of beet red,… — Jody Morse Copy Share Image
“I notice you didn’t include a blade with your new attire,” Royce said. “Not even a little jeweled dagger.” “Lords no.” Albert… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“I don't know it is that I always feel that other people can create things but that I can't. I imagine it's… — Clarissa Dickson Wright Johnny Scott Copy Share Image
I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
“Lucifer will be furious with you for failing, but it's not like he can do anything about it. Women don't always do… — Trinity Faegen Copy Share Image
“The hamster-powered hat is the same as any other hat. It keeps your head warm and looks smart,” the inventor said. “The… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
“Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“(Excerpt from a standup routine by Matt Graham:) Last Friday, my roommate sent me out to get some canned fish, because we're… — Stefan Fatsis Copy Share Image
“101 Reasons why its great to be a woman: We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly… — Summersdale Publishers Copy Share Image
We’ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“It looks like an asylum landed here,” Andrew quipped, poking his head out of Oliver’s pocket. “Ooh, I spot an ass-shaped tent.”… — Zeinab Alayan Copy Share Image
The thing in comedy is that once you start worrying about something not succeeding, you're frozen. There's no verdict on anything. You… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
“I advise you to be suspicious of any black American whose family does not claim a blood connection to Native Americans. That’s… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
“Millard! Who's the prime minister?" "Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?" "What's the capital of Burma?" "Lord, I've no idea.… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“You do realize that if anything happens to you, my son will be devastated?” Ella’s throat closed. She really didn’t want to… — Michelle Smart Copy Share Image
“This guy was making me tired. “Thanks for the afternoon’s entertainment,” I said. “I’ll flush a copy of my bill down the… — John Swartzwelder Copy Share Image
I ran to Rachel [Comey]'s show and on the way I found a potted tree - an umbrella tree - on the… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
“I waved back and went in, and began to sort my way through ancient building plans that had been rolled up so… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
“He spent the next weeks blocking scenes of the bureaucrat fucking his wife. On the floor with cooking ingredients. Standing, with socks… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I can remember hearing one middle-aged man who sat nearby saying 'Simmer down, boyo' to another older man seated kitty-corner to me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Not all comedy clubs or situations are ideal, especially when you're first coming up and I think that's good for you. Eventually… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
“Sir John's confidence in his own judgment rose with this animated praise, and he set off directly for the cottage to tell… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I get out of the car, and I'm blasted by the stench of body odor. Cricket is beside me, and he's talking,… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“The mockup of the poster in Lady Gloria's London flat was the same size as the ones plastered up in tube stations,… — Richard Tillotson Copy Share Image
“She suggested we 'crouch' buck nekkid on the bed or a dresser and leap out at him from the shadows. Now, my… — Celia Rivenbark Copy Share Image
“After graduating, I'd moved to the Washington D.C. area to see what I could do with the skills I'd picked up from… — Jeff Deck Copy Share Image
The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image