Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic… — Willem Lange Copy Share Image
It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
Oh, Callie-mine," Anne said, her voice taking on a tone she'd used when Callie was a little girl and crying over some… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
When you say ‘old friend,’ are we talking, like...since the Ice Age?” “No. Of course not.” “Oh.” “It’s only been about four… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids? — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Ringo, the last to become a Beatle, came into the group not because I wanted him, but because the boys did. To… — Brian Epstein Copy Share Image
“Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“The Dark Ages are alive and secretly thriving like a herpes infection among us.” — Juilette Fay Copy Share Image
My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image