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Quotes About Humor

You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything.
~ Robert Killinger
Can't you just read the directions?" "I could if I wasn't fueled by testosterone and stupidity, but where's the fun in that?
~ Robert Kirkman
I'm about as useful as a fingerless eunuch during Fuck Fest February! someone give me a gun!
~ Robert Kirkman
You of the almighty zap, Zeusifer, loose and zany, let me sizzle on your throne for maybe forty-eight seconds; I've had enough of your poetry crap, just give me the last word of this poem.
~ Robert Kroetsch
We advanced on the enemy with all the stealth of a circus.
~ Robert Leckie
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I grow too merry, when I stand in my nakedness to dress.
~ Robert Lowell
If your IQ was one point lower, you'd be a plant,' was Steve's only comment.
~ Robert Ludlum
Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
in comedy laughter settles all argument ?? ?????????? ????? ???? ?? ???
~ Robert McKee
When a society cannot ridicule and criticize its institutions, it cannot laugh. The shortest book ever written would be the history of German humor, a culture that has suffered spells of paralyzing fear of authority. Comedy is at heart an angry, antisocial art. To solve the problem of weak comedy, therefore, the writer first asks: What am I angry about? He finds that aspect of society that heats his blood and goes on an assault.
~ Robert McKee
Superficial knowledge leads to a bland, monotonous telling. With authorial knowledge we can prepare a feast of pleasures. Or at the very least, add humor.
~ Robert McKee
comic cynicism
~ Robert McKee
In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
~ Robert McKee
Subtle wits like to refresh themselves with a whiff of mild indecency.
~ Robertson Davies
What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!
~ Robertson Davies
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
~ Robertson Davies
He blew his nose resoundingly. B natural, said he, my cold drops more than a full tone every hour. Obviously I am dying.
~ Robertson Davies
Wit and high spirits and a sense of fun- yes, they're wonderful things. But a sense of humour- a real one- is a rarity and can be utter hell. Because it's immoral, you know, in the real sense of the word: I mean, it makes its own laws; and it possesses the person who has it like a demon. Fools talk about it as though it were the same thing as a sense of balance, but believe me, it's not. It's a sense of anarchy, and a sense of chaos. Thank God it's rare.
~ Robertson Davies
The borborygmy, or rumbling of the stomach, has not received the attention from either art or science which it deserves. It is as characteristic of each individual as the tone of the voice. It can be vehement, plaintive, ejaculatory, conversational, humorous -- its variety is boundless. But there are few who are prepared to give it an understanding ear; it is dismissed too often with embarrassment or low wit.
~ Robertson Davies
Grace rose from her chair and Elizabeth too came to her feet. "I thought your arse would be sore by now," said Grace. "It is a bit." "You have to be careful when you ask the Irish to tell you a story.
~ Robin Maxwell
The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?
~ Robin McKinley
I smiled. I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even if we did differ a little about suitable dresses. He considered me a moment, a mischievous light creeping into his eyes, and said: Was THAT the dress - that night you wouldn't come out of your room? I grinned and nodded, and we both laughed;
~ Robin McKinley
There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought.
~ Robin McKinley