Argument Quote by Robert McKee Download Open image “In comedy laughter settles all arguments.” — Robert McKee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Comedy Humor Laughter Settling
Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
My favorite comedians are just presenting an argument, and they're doing it in a funny way. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“If you're too serious to make life a laughing matter, then you seriously need to make laughter matter to you today and every day!” — Jeannine M. Luby Copy Share Image
Comedy has a way of dealing with serious issues and finding humour in it. — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Comedy just reveals the truth in a way where you can't help but laugh; someone says the wrong thing, and you laugh at it… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter. — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I'm really into comedy where you're not sure whether you're supposed to be laughing or crying. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Whatever makes you laugh is fine, and all we can do as comedy professionals is try to steer you towards something that we think… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.” — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story,… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
