Animals Quote by James Thurber

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

— James Thurber

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists…

— Justina Chen Headley

It's malarkey. When you tell people that the roof crushing in on your head is not the cause of injury, it's your head hitting…

— Joan Claybrook

Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past…

— Robert D. Maurer

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling…

— Emma Donoghue

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is…

— Henry Rollins

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

— Joan Rivers

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.

— Herman Melville

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation...

— Thomas Sowell

“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable,…

— Philip Kaufman

“What is so often laughable, in the stories of Kundera's Czechoslovakia, is how grimly serious just about everything turns out to be, jokes and…

— Philip Roth

Batroc is a laughable character. I'm the one who always makes fun of him.

— Jeph Loeb

Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder