Contrary Quote by Samuel L. Jackson

“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live…

— Lynda Williams

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

— Lewis Mumford

I don't look for [comedic moments] actually, I just live my life.

— Gerry Dee

“Preacher Henry Ward Beecher said, “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It is jolted by every pebble…

— Ted Cunningham

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out…

— Agnes Repplier

I try to think of myself as both comedic and dramatic.

— Sam Lloyd

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor…

— Molly Ivins

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in…

— Stephenie Meyer

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas.

— Jonathan Miller

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity…

— Diane Keaton

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

— Steve Zahn

“Most experts today subscribe to some variations of the incongruity theory, the idea that humor arises when people discover there's an inconsistency between what…

— Joel Warner