Humor Quotes
“Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.”
-- Alanis Morissette
“Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.”
-- E. B. White
“I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.”
-- Dana Carvey
“I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.”
-- John Kricfalusi
“Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act if it weren't, more women would do it.”
-- Kate Clinton
“There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.”
-- Rita Rudner
“Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.”
-- Garry Trudeau
“Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.”
-- Emanuel Celler
“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”
-- Christopher Morley
“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
“All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.”
-- Kurt Sutter
“You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.”
-- Liza Minnelli
“I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.”
-- Cheryl Hines