Quotes About Meaning

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

We have truth in order not to die of art.

When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?

This is Frank Carson, News at Ten, Sober.

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.

The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.

A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".

I am a confectionery-based existentialist.

Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.

You know, " he said, "P.S.S. Piss Camp." "Yeah, I get it, " I said, "It's just not funny.

He's named you heir apparent to the Apocalypse. Congratulations.

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God gave me the life and created the world to know what it is actually.

All this for two bad lines he could've gotten out of a fortune cookie?