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Quotes About Perspective

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.
~ Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.
~ Adam Ferrara
I'm rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I've regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that comes with your birth certificate.
~ Bob Monkhouse
It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog.
~ Milton Jones
There's two heads to every coin.
~ Jerry Coleman
You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.
~ Paul Laffoley
There are people that say you should never use humor to talk about anything that's important or hard, and since I don't believe that, at some point there has to be a level of "agree to disagree."
~ Lizz Winstead
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?
~ Jim Butcher, White Night
Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.
~ Colin Quinn
One does not have humor. It has you.
~ Larry Gelbart
No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.
~ Harold Ramis
Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently
~ Sarah MacLean, The Season
All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.
~ Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort
One does not go to Moscow to get fat.
~ John Updike
There's no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.
~ Heather Brewer, First Kill
As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.
~ David Alan Grier
She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.
~ Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.
~ Steven Wright
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.
~ Melina Marchetta