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Quotes About Joke

Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.
~ Stephenie Meyer
I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.
~ Jeff Lindsay
There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.
~ Fred Willard
You can sometimes sneak a political joke in, which is sometimes the most effective place for a political joke - when it's not expected. It's just the most fun thing to do.
~ Jeremy Hardy
On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to be. I'm not doing something sneaky. Inside jokes, I don't like those. We can all ride together, and everyone's on the same thing going, 'Aha, I know where you're going here.'
~ Jimmy Fallon
to her, all familiar responses smell of entrapment. Sharing an old joke, singing an old song - these are admissions of defeat, of being satisfied with one's lot. In the sky, the Fates are watching, and when they hear such things, they murmur amongst themselves: Ah yes, that one is quite content as she is; changing her lot would only confuse her.
~ Michel Faber
And then I realized how powerless I was to revoke my own joke when throughout my life as a whole I was involved in a joke much more vast (all-embracing for me) and utterly irrevocable.
~ Milan Kundera
I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.
~ Scott Walker
It is often easier for us to destroy each other than it is to resolve our differences. Such is the cosmic joke of human nature!
~ Brian Herbert
A serving size on ice cream is like a half a cup. Is that like a joke some guy put on there? Hey, come here: look what I put for the serving size. Did you see? I just did it as a joke but they're going out like that. You ever know anybody to eat a half a cup of ice cream? Hey, you wanna go grab something to eat? Ah, no. I had a half a cup of ice cream. Ya, a whole half a cup. I just kept eating and eating and eating. I must've had two spoonfuls.
~ Brian Regan
Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It's called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha's secret plans on foot t' have 'em shot! (He laughs at his joke.)
~ Tennessee Williams
Hilta laughed like someone who had thought hard about Life and had seen the joke.
~ Terry Pratchett
Tiffany read the sign and smiled. "Aha," she said. There was nothing to knock on, so she added "Knock, knock" in a louder voice. A woman's voice from within said: "Who's there?" "Tiffany," said Tiffany. "Tiffany who?" said the voice. "Tiffany who isn't trying to make a joke.
~ Terry Pratchett
Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.
~ Terry Pratchett
The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.
~ Bob Saget
I get a kick out of replying to people on Twitter sometimes if I make a joke.
~ Scott Rogowsky
I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
Alejandro, who thought he was a wit. And he was, if you put a "nit" in front of it
~ Karen Chance
Mythological race? Dark King? Magic? Was this all some kind of joke?
~ Karen Marie Moning
We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on us, even if we can't quite grasp the punch line.
~ Karen Russell
Everything that's created remains as it was before it was created. The artist fetches it down from the heavens as a finished thing. Eternity has no beginning. Poetry or a Joke: the act of creation lies between what's self-evident and what is permanent
~ Karl Kraus
The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort
~ Katherine Dunn
The truth is always an insult or a joke. Lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort." —
~ Katherine Dunn
A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized. Our relations with a good joke are direct and even divine relations.
~ G. K. Chesterton