Humor Quotes
“You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.”
“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