Jokes Quotes
2488 Jokes quotes by 1346 unique authors
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Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be…
— Peter Leithart
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I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.
— Jon Stewart
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To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make them cry,' and…
— Unknown Author
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My goal is to get on the national team. People joke that we'll be able to go to Beijing in 2008, but it's just jokes…
— Unknown Author
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A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
— Eugene Ionesco
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I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected…
— Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr.
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The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
— Goldwin Smith
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I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get my point. You…
— Robin Sharma
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I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us would go see the worst movie that came out each weekend.…
— Jason Reitman
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I don't approve of political jokes; I have seen too many of them get elected.
— Jon Stewart
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The year that Rutherford died (1938 [sic]) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth.…
— Pyotr Kapitsa
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I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a…
— Mindy Kaling
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The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country,…
— Danny Wallace
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You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be…
— Ken Jennings
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Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke - and then suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense about.…
— Rajneesh
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I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.
— Neil Peart
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Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends;…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in…
— Boy George
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A joke a day keeps the gloom away!
— Cesar Romero
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I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as the 'Will Rogers'…
— Hugh B. Brown
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I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of life…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force.…
— Jimmy Page
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Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the…
— Noam Chomsky
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If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself…
— Robert Patrick
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I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once,…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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