Pun Quotes - Page 5

• John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

  Jeremy Piven

  Childhood, Together, Facts

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

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• One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

  St. Vincent

  Country, Thinking, Appreciate

  "St Vincent: soundtrack of my life". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

  Leigh Hunt

  Art, Clever, Writing

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• Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Dream, Communication, Thinking

  Milton H. Erickson, Ronald A. Havens (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy”, p.63, Ardent Media

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• LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Opportunity, Frowning, Lasts

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.

  Teju Cole

  Attention, Draws

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.59, Faber & Faber

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• I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

  Mason Cooley

  Wisdom, Riddle, Spells

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• A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

  Karl Kraus

  Criticism, Abbreviations, Artistic

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• I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don't think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it's a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Helping, Nonsense

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

  Terence McKenna

  Differences, Dying, Psychedelic

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• Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.

  Gregory Orr

  Moving, Years, Echoes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion, sometimes tells elaborate shaggy dog stories just to work up to a pun or punch line. My challenge is to use humor and wordplay to reinforce the emotional core of the novel.

  Mary Kay Zuravleff

  Dog, Silly, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself - no pun intended - every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination.

  Corri Wilson

  Winning, Men, Nominations

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.

  Antonio Damasio

  Sorry, Emotional, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

  DJ Spooky

  Symphony, Strings, Arrangements

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.

  Garry Winogrand

  Play, Way, Narrative

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.

  Garry Winogrand

  Thinking, Laughing, Upset

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• [Big Pun] loved the fact that I could sing, everybody around us were rappers. A lot of people didn't know that Pun really, really loved r&b music.

  Tony Sunshine

  Rapper, People, Facts

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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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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• It's my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. 'Nothing less than seven inches.' Meliorn gazed at her stonily. 'I'm talking about my heels,' she said. " It's a pun. You know? A play on-" "Come," the faerie knight said. "The Queen will be growing impatient." He headed down the corridor without giving Isabelle a second glance. "I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. " Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie night club called Hot Wings. Not," he added," that I have ever been there.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Night, Talking

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• All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Style, Coincidence

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• Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all.

  T. E. D. Klein

  World, Unexpected, Chill

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• Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fate, Destiny, Hands

  "Bricks to Babel". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1980.

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• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  Verne Troyer

  Character, Men, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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