Pun Quotes - Page 5

• Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. They’re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they don’t approve of tyrannical enterprises – no pun intended – and they substitute their own quote unquote enlightened version of how society is supposed to work, which is essentially American.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Men, Thinking, Fire

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• The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

  David Chase

  Stupid, Fall, Laughing

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• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Baseball, Thinking, Genre Is

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

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• Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.

  Jessica Helfand

  Eye, Light, Color

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• The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.

  Frank E. Gaebelein

  Names, Greek, Trying

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• You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality.' Pardon the pun.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Sexuality, Pardon

  "Christine O’Donnell, Delaware Tea Partier, Criticized Masturbation On MTV’s ‘Sex In The 90s’ Show" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.

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• Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very many humorous fantasy murder mysteries out there, especially not as intricately constructed as this one. Michael G. Munz takes a 'What if,' and runs with it like a toddler with Mom's smart phone. The guffaw-worthy throwaway bits will remind you of Douglas Adams. A very enjoyable read.

  Jody Lynn Nye

  Mom, Running, Smart

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• I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

  Stephan Pastis

  Able, Add, Ends

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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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• Standing, I turned to face my father. “It’s the same as the scent on Moore. It’s definitely a foreign cat, but it’s...more, somehow.” Ethan snickered at my unintentional pun, but I ignored him.

  Rachel Vincent

  Father, Cat, Scent

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.74, MIRA

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• Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

  Stephen King

  Son, Scrooge, Saws

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Class, People

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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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• We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Depression, Dresses, Drink

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• This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, College, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2475, Delphi Classics

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• I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

  Camryn Manheim

  Thinking, Play, Bigger

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• Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest.

  Jason Segel

  Scripts, Unbearable, Bears

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• There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.

  John Barrowman

  Captains, Captain Jack

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them.

  Mark Lowry

  Hate, Tired, I'm Tired

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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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• 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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• 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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