Humor Quotes
“Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.”
“I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.”
-- Shelley Berman
“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”
-- Samuel Butler
“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”
-- J. G. Ballard
“Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.”
-- Allen Klein
“I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.”
-- Horatio Nelson