I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Alone in the observatory late one night, I heard the telephone ring persistently. When I answered, a voice, betraying a well-advanced state… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Then you do not belong here. Death holds no sweetness in this house. We are not warriors, nor soldiers, nor swaggering bravos… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I saw a lady on TV, she was born without arms. That's sad, but then they said, "Lola does not know the… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Live comedy in a club, with an audience - it's hard to recreate that experience in a digital world. With Zoom, your… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
I was writing stand up comedy for TV for around 5 years and just wanted to attempt it myself. Vir Das started… — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“I clenched my jaw as hard as I could. It wasn't much of a stretch to keep pretending to be angry, but… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
“The house was decorated in unrelieved white and black. The people were, too. If it were up to me, I would carry… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Frederick left the young couple gazing into each other’s eyes. Revolting, the way otherwise sensible people could carry on, he decided. Something… — Caroline Stevermer Copy Share Image
Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like,… — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I made the sympathetic face, and the interested face, and even the impressed face. I did not say, 'In the name of… — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
“Falon stared at Del intently, trying to figure out what was different. As usual, Del was impeccably dressed in a lavender dress… — Robin Alexander Copy Share Image
In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets;… — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers,… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
You should never be mean to other girls. I don't care what grade you're in. Be nice to people until you're my… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel gave a dramatic sigh, "Oh to be perched in the rigging of the seabird, with no griping land-lovers about and only… — Nicole Sager The Heart of Arcrea Copy Share Image
I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I'm just a human being with all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others,… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
“...and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. This last, of course,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There is nothing better than to be headed into the mountains on a clean fresh day with the sun rising through the… — Patrick Mcmanus Copy Share Image
You do what you're supposed to do, but you have to be honest about what they're doing. When you do a comedy… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over… — Alan D. Eames Copy Share Image
What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
“She’d rather make love to him then watch any movie. “We don’t have to. Did I do something wrong?” That made him… — Alisha Rai Copy Share Image
“She met the Lusitanian cooks, a husband and wife team whose passionate screams in Portuguese during their fights and lovemaking were legendary… — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
“People…ladies, I mean…they dye their hair sometimes,” I explained to him. “So one day they have red hair and another day they… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“At the top of his file was a three-dimensional holograph scanned in from his military graduation. Cress preferred it to the infamous… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
'Seinfeld' was an amazing show. It's iconic and defined a whole generation of comedy writers - but by their own admission, that… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
“She was foolish to think his attention rested on her. Who, knew, maybe he loved a good mullet and liked playing the… — Eden Summers Copy Share Image
“I’m so sorry, I forget to introduce m’self. Cleo, shat for Cleopaitra, cause m’ daddy always said I look like an Egyptian… — Elle Klass Copy Share Image
