“To save our friends’ nerves, I suggest we meet on a plane of brutal courtesy. It need not interfere with our mutual… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
“There comes a point when careful argumentation fails, a time when we are "casting pearls before swine." As Proverbs tells us: "Don't… — Douglas M. Jones III Copy Share Image
In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
“People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“She drowned all of the catnip mice in Nike's water bowl and I had to take them away after he began drinking… — Amy Petrie Shaw Copy Share Image
“He rolled his eyes at Suren. He couldn’t stand the sound of that sow’s voice. Hearing her say his name was especially… — Aaron Overfield Copy Share Image
“I have a dark sense of humor,' Fanny explained. 'What's that supposed to mean?' asked Honor. 'It means I'm funny once you… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
My relationship with my wife is fraught with all of the problems that any couples face, but there is a sense of… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
“Oh my God, not only is he older than the Grand Canyon, but he’s like the pope and the Fae King and… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
“I’m married, honey. My social life consists of work, church, taxiing the kids around and trying to schedule sex with my husband… — Marilyn Pappano Copy Share Image
I was at a restaurant, and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. She asked me,… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
“Although, fanciful 's origin circa 1627 made me still love the word, even if I'd ruined its applicability to my connection with… — Rachel Cohn & David Levithan Copy Share Image
In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
“...I could feel her burrowing into my heart. I didn't know if the burrowing was like a kitten cuddling up to its… — Jason Porter Copy Share Image
“Catholic gossip and folklore, as one might term it, contributed to this demonizing legend around the conflict with the Protestants. At Geila… — Euan Cameron Copy Share Image
“You can go back to blacksmithing in Hintindar and live a quiet happy life. Do me a favor and marry some pretty… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Logan: I don't care who you are or what you've done. Just tell me why you want to leave. Are you in… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“What do you want?" Jake asked. "Nothing. Can't I sit down for a chat with someone I once shared an egg with?"… — Kat Attalla Copy Share Image
“Futures can and do change, something as simple as you're supposed to turn right down a street one day... In your bones… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
“Elliot was trying to teach himself trollish via a two-hundred-year-old book by a man who’d had a traumatic break-up with a troll.… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“There they were, the movers and shakers of Benjamin Franklin Hight - the sports stars, the cheerleaders, the good, the great, the… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have… — Marlon Wayans Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
“Humanity’s first faster-than-light spacecraft crashed into Pluto and vaporised a significant portion of it. Oops. Pluto’s status as a planet had been… — L. G. Estrella Copy Share Image
“But Herod had already murdered at least two of his sons as though they were enemies. Caesar had made a joke about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say:… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“We don't know much about our hero before 325 BCE-he just sort of materialized out of thin air like a face-melting UFO… — Ben Thompson Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
The first thing I do in the editing room is the 'radio edit,' where you listen to the dialogue and don't even… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
“From what I see, there are only two types of pack members--the hierarchy who are power hungry and the peons who are… — Roxanne Smolen Copy Share Image
I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I'm gonna get one of those tracheotomies, so I can smoke two cigarettes at the same time! I'm gonna get nine tracheotomies,… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
“A diamond may be forever, but terrorism, promiscuously funded, will be too. Let's make the connection clearly by tracing the path of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“And the minibar in my hotel room was mysteriously emptied." "By arcane forces beyond the understanding of normal human beings?" asked Myfanwy… — Daniel O'Malley Copy Share Image
“His relationship with his wife was one of the strangest: they talked till late at night; Bull liked to hold the floor,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image