“I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.”
A good sense of humor is a survival skill. These quotes celebrate wit, comedy, sarcasm, and the ability to find something funny in situations that might otherwise be unbearable. Laughter, it turns out, is a form of intelligence.
“Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.”
“I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.”
“Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.”
“A joke is a very serious thing.”
“I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.”
“Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.”
“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”
“I am often the brunt of my own humor.”
“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”
“Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.”
“The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.”
“There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.”
“Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.”
“You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.”
“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”
“It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.”