Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.
I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that’s all you’ve got, it’s just boring. Everything I write, whether it’s happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.
As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
I’ve used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It’s gotten me through a lot of challenging times.
Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Humor is healing.
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation’s history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone’s eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
My humor isn’t meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it’s to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.
While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
You know, ‘Jake 2.0’ had some funny things in it; I mean, I needed my sense of humor to do that part.
I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
I don’t feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.
My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.
Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.
Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn’t anything new to college.
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
Think about scary movies: There’s a fine line between horror and humor.
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.
I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.
We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing’s funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That’s why I told America to ‘Read my hips!’ on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on ‘Seinfeld.’
Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do, we laugh. That’s a very real thing.
Sense of humor. A girl who doesn’t take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They’re the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.
Christina Hoff Sommers is a self-identified feminist and registered Democrat with a Ph.D. in philosophy and a wicked sense of humor.
The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, ‘Hey, check out my zit!’ – you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.
There’s not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there’s something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor.
I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.
If you’re feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance – and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you’ve ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee – or laugh.
I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I’m better known for drama.
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor – they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
Well, darkness with humor… I’m not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.
Every time I’ve done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there’s always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they’re just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
The waltz is a very important part of my life. It’s a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
That’s what kept us going – a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.
Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn’t. It focuses on facts.
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
I don’t have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble – it is almost insignificant.
My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‘Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.’
Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it’s got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can’t just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that – it’s got to be funny.
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire – sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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.
I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.
