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Quotes About Comical

Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
~ Alan Moore
I was afraid I sounded a bit comical with all my threats. As if I needed a mustache to twirl like some sort of ancient villain.
~ Diana Peterfreund
Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Sì certo, complessivamente una storia ridicola, una vicenda come tante, banale, storta, comica, meschina. Era tanto semplice capirlo, non poteva che finire così, su, coraggio, buonanotte, a domani, non ne vorrà fare una tragedia spero, raddrizzi il nodo della cravatta piuttosto. Una doverosa risata. Buonanotte.
~ Dino Buzzati
Like an apologetic banana
~ Angie Sage
Although blaming traffic for being that late seemed almost comical to him, he held back from calling her on what he imagined was a passive-aggressive stunt.
~ Robin Cook
Only once, I told them. It had happened only once. That was true. But it came back more than once, after that first time. Whatever it was. The Drop. That was what I named it. —The Drop? Rachel would ask. Always at night. Always lying down. Only in the loft. Only in those two years. She liked the name. It did the trick, caged it, made it comical.
~ Roddy Doyle
He fainted. Then he came to and remembered what happened and fainted again.
~ Donita K. Paul
I stood up, and my pants ripped completely across the seam. It was inevitable, but for once in my life, my timing had been decent.
~ Joan Bauer
Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.
~ William Golding
Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.
~ Robert Rankin
When the sun peeped into the girl's room early next morning, to promise them a fine day, he saw a comical sight... This funny spectacle appeared to amuse the sun, for he burst out with such radiance that Jo woke up, and roused all her sisters by a hearty laugh at Amy's ornament.
~ Louisa May Alcott
He appeared to Gustav like a caricature of a reserved English gentleman, with brilliantined white hair, a rosy complexion and a ridiculous little moustache, trimmed so close to his top lip, it resembled a worn-out nail brush.
~ Rose Tremain
Yeah, I would love to play someone really dumb, just really foolish.
~ Karan Soni
Music for cartoons is sillier, funnier.
~ James Newton Howard
Wie leicht Grenadine mit Selter beim Lachen durch die Nase geht (Bar vor der Opéra Comique).
~ Franz Kafka
A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
~ Carlo Collodi
But in the early years, there was the sense that il Duce's ego was a comical thing. He pontificated about the sanctity of family life while openly keeping a young mistress, Claretta Petacci. He bared his chest on the stage while giving a speech at the Pontine Marshes. He stuck out his chin, shouted, boasted, waved his fists, made promises about bringing Italy back to the greatness of ancient Rome.
~ Roland Merullo
Woody Allen once quipped that dwarf is once of the four funniest words in the English language. To be in your very essence perceived as comical is a significant burden.
~ Andrew Solomon
Just then his state of being was so curious that he was compelled , himself, to see it -- eager, grieving, fantastic, dangerous, crazed and, to the point of death, comical. It was enough to make a man pray to God to remove this great, bone-breaking burden of selfhood and self-development, give himself, a failure, back to the species for a primitive cure.
~ Saul Bellow
He tried to make his lust comical, to show how absurd it all was, easily the most wretched form of human struggle, the very essence of slavery.
~ Saul Bellow
Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.
~ John D. MacDonald
Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
~ Desmond Tutu
It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.
~ Ryan Reynolds