Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Steinberg

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Bruce Nauman

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Bob Newhart

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

Jeff Foxworthy

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

John Perry Barlow

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

James Gleick

Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

Lauren Willig

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.

Jerry Seinfeld

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Tunde Adebimpe

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Buddy Rich

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Buddy Guy

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Carlos Santana

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

Billy Joel

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

Billy Joel

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Billy Joel

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

Diana Wynne Jones

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

Deirdre O'Kane

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

Bob Dylan

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

Bill Cosby

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

LeRoy Neiman

You can't take yourself too seriously.

Michelle Gomez

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

Ken Livingstone

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

Jon Stewart

Thus, I've created humour.

Sylvester Stallone

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.