Humour Quotes - Page 23

• There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

  Ade Edmondson

  Effectiveness, People, Doubt

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• I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

  Shirley Henderson

  Doom And Gloom, Laughing, Scottish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the danger and action. The ones that really transcend the genre always have a great laugh in them, such as 'Fright Night,' 'Lost Boys,' 'American Werewolf in London' - just to name a few.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Book, Thinking

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• I'm always impressed by confidence, kindness and a sense of humour.

  Tamara Mellon

  Kindness, Impressed

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• When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

  Matthew Perry

  Emotional, People, Cracks

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• I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

  Alexei Sayle

  Spring, Thinking, Ideas

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• Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Karma, Letting Go, Laughter

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• Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

  Augustus William Hare

  Mind, Body, May

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.223

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• The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

  Sara Davidson

  Laughter, Pain, Distance

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• The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

  Joan Miro

  Liberty, Expansion, Contradiction

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• There just isn't enough televised Chess

  David Letterman

  Chess, Enough

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• The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

  Horace Walpole

  Scotch, Void, Wit

  Horace Walpole (1866). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford”, p.67

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• Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

  Elvis Costello

  Expression, Three, Letters

  Song: Man Out Of Time

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• His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

  Bob Dylan

  Dry, Bob, Splendid

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Real, People, Joy

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• Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the '60s and '70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Strong, Character, Identity

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I have a humorous side but these days humour can be a risky thing.

  Narendra Modi

  Humorous, Sides, These Days

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear.

  Narendra Modi

  Public Life, Left

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

  Peter James

  Police, Black, Sanity

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

  Tim Winton

  Pay, Horror, Existential

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

  Tim Winton

  Humanity, Special, Turns

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• My secret to having a happy relationship is having a sense of humour and giving one another space: your own space.

  Iris Apfel

  Space, Giving, Secret

  Source: www.thegayuk.com

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• Love and a good sense of humour strengthen the entire body; remember your cells respond to your input.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Cells, Body, Input

  Barbara Marciniak (2004). “Path of Empowerment: Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.174, New World Library

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• A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

  Clive James

  Common Sense, Dancing, Common

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• Sometimes you feel amazing about life and other times you just feel fat and depressed, so I think it's good to be honest about that and to make light of it, I think humour is important, nobody's perfect.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Thinking, Light, Perfect

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