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Quotes About Reality

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
When people say "clean as a whistle", they forget that a whistle is full of spit.
~ George Carlin
Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?
~ James Roday
Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that's disappointed? Still no superheros.
~ Jimmy Carr
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.
~ George Saunders
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
~ Billy Wilder
Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.
~ Jack Paar
I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.
~ Murray Walker
Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.
~ Ken Kesey
We drink and we die and continue to drink.
~ Denis Leary
Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
~ Erica Jong
I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.
~ Zooey Deschanel
I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.
~ Roz Chast
Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it's not funny.
~ Ricky Gervais
Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.
~ Erma Bombeck
Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay
~ Harlan Coben
There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.
~ Joan Rivers
The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.
~ Julian Fellowes
My way of looking at the world is that if it is true, it is funny and it is dark. No matter how dark it is, I just think it is funny. I can't help it.
~ Maria Semple
They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.
~ Penn Jillette
Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.
~ Rockmond Dunbar
Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.
~ Will Smith
If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.
~ Chris Rock