Sense Of Humor Quotes - Page 23

• 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 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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• I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

  Maira Kalman

  Tough, Knows, Has Beens

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• A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.

  Joan Rivers

  Oxymoron

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• I am proud of who you were, David-that hurt person who refused to "die." And I'm more caring, giving, fixing person, the guy with the same sense of humor and that deft, sensitive touch. Good on you, David I love you.

  Dave Pelzer

  Hurt, Love You, Caring

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• I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

  Marlo Thomas

  Dad, Thinking, Laughing

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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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• 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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• 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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• You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.

  Terry Pratchett

  Space, Dragons, Trying

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• Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

  Jean Webster

  Heaven, Understanding, Forgiving

  Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.59, Penguin

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• I remember a long, long day of filming and it took forever to get Kirk Douglas up on his cross. We played a terrible joke on him when, as he was safely installed, the assistant director called lunch and left him up there. He could have had the lot of us fired but he was very good about it. You have to have a sense of humor in this industry.

  Jean Simmons

  Lunch, Long, Forever

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

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• You can always tell somebody's sense of humor by if they like this movie or not.

  Kurt Russell

  Ifs

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• If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Frustration, Return, Impatience

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.5, Open Road Media

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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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• I think people who make checklists are the most miserable and alone because they are looking for the perfect Entenmann's that is delicious and has no calories. Please, you want a brunette with a sense of humor, a doctorate and HIV-negative status? Good luck, honey. Love isn't so frequent that you can put conditions on it.

  Paul Rudnick

  Good Luck, Love Is, Thinking

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• Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Mom, Parent, Divorced

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• There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Two, Insult, Trouble

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.335, Penguin

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• If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.

  Ted Nugent

  Hurt, Arguing, Ifs

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• There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

  Tupac Shakur

  Pain, Rain, Thug

  Song: Smile

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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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• 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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• Lights! Lights would be very good right now! (Amanda) Since they hurt my eyes to the point I can barely see, no they wouldn't. Trust me. (Kyrian) Trust you, my left foot! I'm not immortal over here! (Amanda) Yeah, well, in a bad enough car wreck, neither am I. (Kyrian) I really hate your sense of humor. (Amanda)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Hate, Eye

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