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Quotes About Perspective

I had a tumor. But it was great.
~ David Rakoff
We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
~ Casey Affleck
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
~ David Hyde Pierce
I grew up in a funny way.
~ Gordon Ramsay
When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.
~ Billy Lawrence
It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!
~ Bonnie McKee
It's in our own lives, every single day, whether we recognize it as funny at the moment or not.
~ Sean Astin
Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.
~ Steve Coogan
These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
~ David Mitchell
My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.
~ Frank Carson
Comedy is rarely funny.
~ Dov Davidoff
I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.
~ Frankie Boyle
I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.
~ Richard Thompson
I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.
~ Tom Perrotta
I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.
~ Heather Donahue
I do think laughter is the most important thing, and being able to see the funny side of nearly anything is a crucial, crucial thing.
~ Jeremy Vine
Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".
~ Ronald Reagan
The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.
~ John Green
Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.
~ Jim Gaffigan
When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'
~ Dylan Moran
I don't want to get the same looks I give people when they get on a plane holding a baby: "That's a cute baby, just keep walking, keep walking, keep going, keep going.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.
~ Erma Bombeck
You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.
~ Franz Beckenbauer