Pun Quotes - Page 3

• Obviously I struck gold with Deadwood. No pun intended.

  Jim Beaver

  Gold

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• I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

  William Shenstone

  Names, I Am Thankful, Obnoxious

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.101

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• We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other - as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect.

  Harriet Hosmer

  Ideas, Order, Laughing

  Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”

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• I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.

  Bill Nye

  Meaningful, Thinking, Years

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.39, St. Martin's Press

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• Here's the way I look at it. President Bush has uranium-tipped bunker busters and I have puns. I think he'll be OK.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, President, Looks

  "Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: America's Anchors". Interview with Maureen Dowd, www.rollingstone.com. November 16, 2006.

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• I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Stars, Mean, Black And White

  Interview on Inside the Actors Studio, 2007.

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• They are "sexcellent". That is a pun for you, you will find lots of puns on the internet! Also: blonde jokes.

  Ryan North

  Blonde, Internet, Jokes

  "Ryan's Page Of Fun and Lesbian Robot Erotica". www.insaneabode.com.

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• Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Two, Different

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.40, Kshetra Books

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• No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Beauty, God, Faith

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (2015). “These are the Sacraments”, p.5, Aeterna Press

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• If you aim to be big, you will be big. And that's not a pun about my size.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Size, Bigs, Aim

  Source: www.themonitor.com

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• Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.

  Gruff Rhys

  Language, Obsession, Welsh

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think at some point [Big Pun] really wanted to be a singer as well. He would call me at 3 or 4 in the morning and say "Yo Twin, sing something for me!". That's the type of love Big Pun had for me. He had this faith and belief and he expressed it many times. It was overwhelming for me. I think that he honestly believed I was going to make a difference in the game.

  Tony Sunshine

  Morning, Thinking, Games

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended. It's more intimidating to sing in front of smaller crowds. The buck stops with me.

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Wings, Band, Crowds

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• We have to know cognitively what another mind is thinking and also empathically what they're feeling. And of course, in general, that's always the case, but it's often very generic. Like with Leo Cullum's doctor, it's just the fact that people in general are cruel and insensitive. But in the Barbara Smaller cartoon, we understand it's this particular person or this specific sub-class of person and her particular needs and desires, and that's different than a pun cartoon in which it's just semantic.

  Robert Mankoff

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Disney became hated. It became one of the evil corporations. It used to be loved. They couldn't hold onto talent; they couldn't attract talent. Some of their products did badly. The Californialand project was a $5 billion waste of money. They couldn't make it work. The magic had gone, no pun intended.

  Simon Sinek

  Evil, Magic, Gone

  Source: advisor.tv

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• There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.

  Anne Waldman

  Blood, America, Identity

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When we're on tour, probably we don't go 24 hours without someone asking us where we came up with the name They Might Be Giants. Which, on one level, seems like a completely legitimate question. If I think of other bands, like The Beatles, it would explain to me that John Lennon had a proclivity for slightly cheap puns. But I'm not sure how much insight that would give me into what's actually good about The Beatles' music.

  John Flansburgh

  Thinking, Giving, Hours

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.

  Gail Simone

  Cancer, Fate, Humanity

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired me in '73, and I left early in '81. I did everything from low puns to being editor-in-chief.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Writing, Editors, Ends

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had imagined I would come back at some point. But yeah, that was for a very specific reason. I will be very excited when I can tweet things that are just stupid puns and not be political for a while.

  Joss Whedon

  Stupid, Political, Excited

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W. Bush. But when that day comes, all we're going to have are tired puns and goofy looks. Because as you would say, we're suffering from the soft bigotry of low expectorations.

  Jon Stewart

  Tired, Suffering, Needs

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• I think it [Danger] showed the unity between the spirituality and love I have for Big Pun. It was overdue and I think that was God's plan. I didn't get to create the magic with him in the studio, but it was still a blessing.

  Tony Sunshine

  Blessing, Thinking, Magic

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ears, Half, Mouths

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• Also not the kind of place to hide a server." "Is that another pun?" She asked. "No! I swear! I didn't mean that one." ~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5

  Ridley Pearson

  Mean, Games, Kingdoms

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• For any healthy relationship to work you have to be able have that time to spend with your friends. And to have a healthy relationship with your friends - and to be honest, if they "know you", pardon the pun, then they'll understand that you need to spend time with your partner. If people are pulling at you from both sides then maybe there's something a little off balance within the relationship. But it also depends on how you are as a person. You need to set the guidelines quite clearly, and say "I need my friends im my life. I got with you, but my friends are part of me also".

  Craig David

  People, Healthy, Balance

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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