Famous Quotes: Humor

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I'm going to do a lot of weird stuff that's not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it's time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff.
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I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
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I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
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Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
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My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
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I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.
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