Sense Of Humor Quotes - Page 23

• It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Valentine, Book

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1035, Simon and Schuster

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• When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'

  Bill Walsh

  Jobs, Sleep, Kids

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.26, Penguin

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• I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Stories, I Realized

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• Friends don't have to have a lot of things in common. But there's one thing friends usually do have in common - a sense of humor. That doesn't mean they find all the same things funny. Sometimes, they might even laugh at each other. But at the end of the day, friends can always laugh with each other.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Mean, Laughing, The End Of The Day

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “You Have to Stop This”, p.211, Hachette UK

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• There," Zoë suggested."By the Embarcadero Building." "Good thinking," Chuck said. "Me and Hank can blend in with the pigeons." We all looked at him. "Kidding," he said. "Sheesh, can't a statues have a sense of humor?

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Pigeons, Building

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

  Hannah Arendt

  Running, Risk, Today

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Passion, Humor, Patriotic

  "H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series".

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• If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Humor, Deals, Ifs

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• If a girl doesn't have a sense of humor, then what would you have to talk about?

  Josh Hartnett

  Girl, Humor, Ifs

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• What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

  M. Scott Peck

  Honesty, Skills, People

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• There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of.

  Al Pacino

  Dream, Real, Thinking

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• I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

  Maira Kalman

  Men, Brooding

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• When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

  Max Frisch

  Laughter, Mean, Laughing

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• I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Fun, Ignorance, Years

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• Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

  Robert Morgan

  Honesty, Tough, Poetic

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• I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.

  John Cena

  Thinking, Knows

  "James Roday and John Cena Grapple with Psych". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 22, 2010.

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• I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school."

  Betty White

  Father, Home, School

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Meltdowns, Wells

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the trade “he goes deep.” A true wordsmith AND musician who reveals a fine sense of humor, as well. Put on your headphones and listen carefully.

  David Crosby

  White, Musician, Singers

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• And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Light, Shadow

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• I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

  Rob Reiner

  Growing Up, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's usually a sense of humor about all of it. It is what it is. I had two characters that were equally detestable, in very different ways, that hit the airwaves, at the same time. It was a very interesting year in my career, in that way. But I have no fear, on that note. I have a new project for HBO, where I'm going to play the good guy. That's going to be fun and exciting, and shift the paradigm a bit.

  Pablo Schreiber

  Fun, Character, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• My two older brothers are both molecular biologists and neuroscientists, and I feel like representing them accurately is never done in movies, and I really wanted to at least capture the spirit of a Ph.D. student whose goal and aspiration is to increase the sum total of human knowledge. That is noble. That was really, really important, to capture the three-dimensionality of scientists. Scientists fall in love, scientists have the greatest sense of humor, scientists are passionate.

  Mike Cahill

  Falling In Love, Brother, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me.

  Linda Blair

  Way, Exorcist, Know How

  "Interview With the Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Legs, Entertainment, Regions

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