Humour Quote by Gemma Halliday

“We ran hunched along a subterranean corridor, discarded animal bones underfoot, the ceiling brushing our heads, past things I tried not to see—a slumped…

— Ransom Riggs

“Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)”

— Eileen Granfors

“It's funny how we give meaning to the chirping of birds and, in turn, silence human beings.”

— Faiqa Mansab

“the signifieds butt-heads with the signifiers and we all fall down slackjawed to marvel at words while across the sky sheet impossible birds in…

— Joanna Newsom

“Logan, don’t be an ass.” “I have been sleeping in mud. I’m covered in dirt and blood and these were my favorite pants before…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“When Grandma read me: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall . . . I never knew that Humpty's…

— Lee Bennett Hopkins

“I drink coffee like goats walk on tightropes. It’s fun to watch, but it sure would be easier if this monkey dressed like a…

— Jarod Kintz

“Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom had a part in my education--noisy-throated frogs, katydids and crickets held in my…

— Helen Keller

“I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcry and whose arrival announces to men the season when fields are…

— Theognis

“Quaqua—the sound one’s soul squeals when seducing one’s own clown. (Not to be heard until a future date.)”

— Jarod Kintz

“Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?”

— Terry Pratchett

“There was a merciless gnawing in my chest, a queer silent labor was going on in there. I pictured a score of nice teeny-weeny…

— Knut Hamsun