Humour Quotes - Page 10

• I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic.

  Eva Mendes

  Sexy, Ambition, Doe

  "Eva Mendes Doesn't Want to Just Be 'Sexy'" by Gillian Koenig, people.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

  George Gissing

  Laughter, Fate, Farce

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.153, Booklassic

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• I was a weirdo. I wasn't picked on or anything. And I wasn't smarter than the other kids; that's not why I didn't fit in. I've always had this weird anxiety. I hated recess. I didn't like field trips. Parties really stressed me out. And I had a very different sense of humour.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Party, Kids

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• This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion

  Jean Baudrillard

  Distance, Spy, Use

  Jean Baudrillard (1998). “The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures”, p.121, SAGE

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• The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

  Ronald Knox

  Mark, Halls, Illiteracy

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• You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

  C. S. Lewis

  Laughter, Roaring, Study

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

  E. M. Forster

  Humility, Two, Empathy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.183, RosettaBooks

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• You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Writing, Long

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• HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, West Indies, Sea

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.147, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.

  Ken Bruen

  Writing, Joy, Missing

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• Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Sides, Pathos

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.60

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• A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Needs, Littles, Legends

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• It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever!

  Arlene Hunt

  Car, Black, Needs

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• For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

  Edward Dowden

  Littles, Cynicism, Poet

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• Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

  Phil Keoghan

  Notebook, Book, Delayed

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sex, Science, Female

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.82, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

  Michka Assayas

  Thinking, Cynicism, Disguise

  Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.108, Penguin

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• Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

  Andrew Eldritch

  Different

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• Dad made me laugh a lot. He was a real comedian. He had a real sarcastic sense of humour, he could really make a fool out of people. I have to watch it a little bit, because I caught that habit from him. I was really fond of him. He was my idol.

  Julian Lennon

  Sarcastic, Dad, Real

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• I am thrilled that DDLJ has beaten all records, Shah Rukh Khan and I share a close friendship that translates onto the screen. We have such fun working together. Shah Rukh has a great sense of humour. He invests incredible energy into his acting. He reads a lot. I share all these with him. I love books. I love his style of working and abundant refinement. I love him to death and would like to work with him again.

  Kajol

  Fun, Book, I Love Him

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• Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

  William Hartston

  Pain, Victory, Chess

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• Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Genius, Mediocrity, Chess

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• Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining something I don't understand myself.' This relates to my game: I didn't understand anything!

  Vassily Ivanchuk

  Games, Suffering, Needs

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• I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.

  Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami

  Sleep, Thinking, Records

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• Barcza is the most versatile player in the opening. He sometimes plays P-KKt3 on the first, sometimes on the second, sometimes on the third, and sometimes only on the fourth move.

  Harry Golombek

  Moving, Player, Chess

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