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Quotes About Joking

I am the only one of my siblings with red hair. When I asked my da where I got it, he joked that there must've been rust in the pipes. His own hair was dark—"cured," he said, through years of toil—but when he was young it was more like auburn. Nothing like yours, he said. Your hair is as vivid as a Kinvara sunset, autumn leaves, the Koi goldfish in the window of that hotel in Galway. Mr. Grote doesn't
~ Christina Baker Kline
That got some appreciative laughter, though he wasn't joking, and the bird didn't laugh. It didn't answer him either. Quentin couldn't read its face; like all birds, it had only one expression.
~ Lev Grossman
One Valentine's my date texted me in the evening saying: 'Oh there's a buy-one-get-one-free deal at Domino's tonight,' and I genuinely thought he was joking. But no, it wasn't a joke. We got a buy-one-get-one-free Domino's because there was a bargain on. Oh, and I had to pay for it as well.
~ Maura Higgins
Saying, have a great work-out is like saying, I hope you pull something.
~ Dov Davidoff
I've been called a cheater by my fellow opponents. It's all joking, but when someone yells 'cheater' in front of 200 people, to me it's not going to go down very well.
~ Xander Schauffele
I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
~ Uzo Aduba
It's no longer permissible to have sexist comments, but growing up in this industry, I spent time in many other organizations where it was just commonplace for men to talk about how a woman looks or give a woman a little bit of a harder time in a meeting and then say, 'I'm just joking - it's because I care about you.'
~ Dana Walden
My mom was a truck driver and my dad use to call her a mother trucker.
~ Unknown
We're going to inflict Qibli's terrible fashion sense on this whole continent?" Winter asked, joking awkwardly. "I'm afraid we have no choice," said Queen Thorn. "I think you mean 'wow, what a lot of lucky, soon-to-be-stylish dragons,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
~ Salvador Dali
It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.
~ Czeslaw Milosz
If you were a girl... I'd kiss you!
~ Darren Shan
It's big, but isn't it beautiful?" Kathy asked. "Yes, like you!" he joked. "Watch it," she said. "I can lose this weight, but you're never growing that hair back.
~ Dave Eggers
A joke is a very serious thing.
~ Winston S. Churchill
A joke's a very serious thing.
~ Winston S. Churchill
What got you chained up?" she asked the vampire. "I fell in with bad company," he said, straight-faced, and for a moment she wasn't sure if he was joking. It rattled her, the idea that he might have a sense of humor. "Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?" the vampire accused Aidan in his silky voice.
~ Holly Black
You don't know how long I've waited to hear those word,' he says. 'You don't want me dead.' 'If you joke about this, I am going to-' 'Kill me?' He asks, raising both black brows. I think I might hate him after all.
~ Holly Black
We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.
~ Unknown
me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.
~ David Levithan
The Times came last night; tonight it was Newsday and the Voice. I want to tell them we were just joking. It's not a real play, it's what comes from doodling while you're holding a bong.
~ David Sedaris
Hey, are you guys coming or what?" Caleb called to them from the trailhead. "Or do you need a room?" Kel looked at Ivy. "I hope you don't mind that I'm going to have to kill him. I'm sorry for your loss.
~ Jill Shalvis
You don't have to make fun of it. Actually I do, I said. I make fun of almost everything.
~ Jim Butcher
You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep.
~ Jim Butcher
If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.
~ John Oliver