Sense Of Humor Quotes - Page 24

• Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heartbreak, Fate, Giving

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.549, St. Martin's Press

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• You can’t. He has it shielded. Besides, he’s a god and can be a nasty one if you upset him. You try popping into any place where his beloved wife is and you’ll get fried faster than chicken at KFC. He doesn’t have a sense of humor when it comes to her. So wipe the frown off your face before you hurt her feelings and get gutted for it. (Phobos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Beloved Wife, Kfc

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.152, Macmillan

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• He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

  J. D. Salinger

  Said

  "Nine Stories". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1953.

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• She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beautiful, Charming, Perfect Woman

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• All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Dream, Pain

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House

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• My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Race, Way, My Family

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• Paris answered for him. "Last time he spread the flashing love, Reyes threw up all over his shirt. I never laughed so hard in my life. Lucien, though, has no sense of humor and vowed never to take us again." "I'm surprised you didn't mention the part where you fainted," Lucien said wryly. Strider chortled. "Oh, man. You fainted? What a baby!" "Hey," Paris said, frowning at Lucien. "I told you I hit my head midflash." Lucien

  Gena Showalter

  Baby, Men, Paris

  Gena Showalter (2010). “The Darkest Kiss”, p.94, HQN Books

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• I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

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• I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Color, Black, Trying

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.22, Delacorte Press

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• Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Real, Writing, Stories

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• I agree, Dad. I was just explaining to the woman why we don’t look anything alike and why you would have been younger than me when I was born. It doesn’t mean I don’t love you ‘cause you know I do. Make one snotty comment in anger when you’re twelve years old going through puberty and getting grounded, and you pay for it for the rest of your life. Parents ain’t got no sense of humor. (Omari)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dad, Love You, Mean

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born Of Ice: Number 3 in series”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• 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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• 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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• Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all of your socially handicapped characters with them. Tell him his old girlfriend is in all of your stories and then watch how funny he can be, see what a really great sense of humor he can have.

  Lorrie Moore

  Girlfriend, Writing, School

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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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• Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Artist

  Codice Atlantico 90

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• Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

  Jesse Ventura

  Congratulations, Humor, Mud

  News conference, speaking to reporters, where a few were wearing the "Official Jackal" security passes that he had issued, February 23, 2001.

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• But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Aunt, Catholic, Saint

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2007). “The Office of Peter and the Structure of the Church, 2nd Edition”, p.184, Ignatius Press

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• I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Sexy, Strong, Heart

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

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• and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sanity, Conviction, Agree

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, female…. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real change. People, I want a president who speaks well, who has a sense of humor. This guy is such a moron! It's beyond the point where it's a joke. He's an idiot.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Real, Men

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• Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

  Jonathan Winters

  War, Cancer, Heart

  "The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Jonathan Winters". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

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• Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

  Steve Tisch

  Art, Visionaries, Makers

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• What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

  Bernard Williams

  Humor, Would Be, World

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• I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.

  Patti Smith

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Mean

  "Patti Smith on Art". Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.pbs.org. December 30, 2009.

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