Quotes About Joke

I was at lunch with some friends one day, and we looked down at our table - blond pasta, blond pizza - and then someone joked, 'Blonde salad,' and it stuck.

I like ones that pertain to the music they make. Talking Heads does that somehow. More often than not band names are just a quirky joke that doesn't really stay funny for very long. It's like Homer Simpson's barbershop quartet, the Be Sharps. At first you're like, 'That's funny!' Then you're like, 'It's not that funny.'

It could have been ten." "What's that mean?" "It's a Hellion joke. When God threw them from Heaven, they fell for nine days, so when everything goes to shit you say…" "…It could have been ten.

None of the palaces in Hell come close to Lucifer's in size or beauty. Lucifer lives at the top of a literal ivory tower, miles high. You can't even see the top from the ground. The joke is that he built it that high so he can lean out the window and pound on Heaven's floor with a broom handle when he wants them to turn down the choir.

Manipulators look for ways to make their opponent, or his position, look ridiculous (and therefore funny). People like a good laugh and they especially like laughing at views that seem threatening to them. A good joke is almost always well received, for it relieves the audience of the responsibility to think seriously about what is making them uncomfortable.

Can you ever get off for good behavior?" he joked. I gave him what I hoped was a seductive smile as I found my seat. "Sure," I called over my shoulder. "If I was ever good.

What in the world is this abomination?" Lissa, only slightly more tactful, asked, "Adrian, is this some kind of joke?

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" he joked. "Sure," I called over my shoulder. "If I was ever good.

The book was The Count of Monte Cristo. I held it up, needing to make a joke, needing to do anything to make this less real. "I saw the movie. Your subtle symbolism isn't really all that subtle. Unless you've hidden a file inside it." "The book's always better than the movie.

You make a joke out of everything. Life's too painful not to.

What are you going to name him?" I asked her. Adrian followed my lead. "Adrian Sinclair has a nice ring to it," he said. Olive's eyes, full of fear, watched the window and door, but her lips curled into another smile at the joke. "Declan." "Nice Irish name," I said. "It would work," Adrian conceded. "Declan Adrian Sinclair." "Declan Neil," she corrected.

Old European joke: in heaven the cooks are French, the police British, the engineers German, the lovers Italian, while in hell the cooks are British, the police German, the engineers Italian.

Just hear me out. While you were napping, I was busy chatting up our allies. Didn't you know--your woman's a golden-tongued ambassador! My sisters always said I graduated from the shock-and-awe school of diplomacy, but joke 'em if they can't take a fuck, right?

Please make yourselves at home here for a few minutes, while I attend to an errand, said the Nome King, getting up from the throne. I shall return pretty soon, when I hope to find you pieceful—ha, ha, ha!—that's a joke you can't appreciate now but will later. Be pieceful—that's the idea. Ho, ho, ho! How funny. Then he waddled from the cavern, closing the door behind him.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.

riley: give me a romantic comedy any day. rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? riley: takes one to know one, bro.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

The gossip theory might sound like a joke, but numerous stories support it.

I used to know a woman named Anita Hurl," Lizbeth said. "Get it? I need to hurl?

A witch, a Rider, a dragon, and a god walk into a monastery… There's got to be a good joke in there somewhere.

Not really riding weather, is it, miss? Unless you're a duck." He chuckled at his own joke. "Quack," Jenna said...

How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" "I don't know. How many?" "Eight." "Why?" "Oh, stop overanalyzing it.

Two Chemists went in a bar. One Chemist asked the waiter to get him H2O, and the second Chemist said that he would have H2O too. The waiter told them that they don't serve H2O2 because it's a powerful oxidizing agent.