The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I met Big Pun when I was a young boy. I think that he really gravitated to my innocence. — Tony Sunshine Copy Share Image
“Thatsh prieshts for you,” said the old man wetly. “Nothing by torc, torc, torc.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“So one might say that music killed him, that he was felled by music. It's a theory. String theory.” — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun… — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion,… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in… — Gruff Rhys Copy Share Image
I had imagined I would come back at some point. But yeah, that was for a very specific reason. I will be… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the… — Frank E. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended.… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues!… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
We have to know cognitively what another mind is thinking and also empathically what they're feeling. And of course, in general, that's… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
“Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?' Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor;… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
For any healthy relationship to work you have to be able have that time to spend with your friends. And to have… — Craig David Copy Share Image
