Humour Quotes - Page 26

• I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.

  Shane Black

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "Crash, bang, wallop what a picture" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2009.

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• You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Agency, Phones

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sexy, Sex And Love

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• Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

  John Agard

  Self, People, Enlightening

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• At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

  Thom Yorke

  Home, Juvenile

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• The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.

  Terry Pratchett

  Religious, Buddhist, Order

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.136, Random House

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• I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life And Love, Honor, Important

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• The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

  John Lennon

  Fighting, Beard, Faces

  YouTube Chanel "Beatlemaniac1960"/ "John Lennon about violence", www.youtube.com. October 8, 2011.

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  I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Laughter, Caring

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

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• If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Sex, Years, Partnership

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

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• MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.161, University of Georgia Press

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• Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

  Sarah Kane

  Humanity, Life Is, Response

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• Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

  Douglas Adams

  War, Communication, Race

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

  Coco Chanel

  Life, Fashion, Might

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• The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

  L.P. Hartley

  Country, Memories, Future

  "The Go-Between". Book by L.P. Hartley, 1953.

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• What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again

  Anne Frank

  Done, Happenings, Happening Again

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.148, GENERAL PRESS

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• It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

  Jane Austen

  Fiction Novels, Thorough Knowledge, Mind

  Northanger Abbey ch. 5 (1818)

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• I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

  Michel Gondry

  Nice, Thinking, Cynical

  "How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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• I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is not a joke. We are not what you think we are from looking at T.V. We are real. We laugh, we cry. We are serious. We have a sense of humour. You don't have to be afraid of us. We don't want to convert you. And please don't try to convert us. Just give us the same right we give you--to live in peace. We are much more similar to you than you think.

  Margot Adler

  Dream, Jobs, Real

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• One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  History, Historical, Know How

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• Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

  Stephen Fry

  Stupidity, Guarantees, Authenticity

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  If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Rhetorical Strategies, Play, Political

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