Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
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.
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
I like girls who are funny with a warped sense of humor.
There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
'Plum's are probably the funniest, but all the books have their own degree of humor. But if you're hooked into 'Ranger,' you're reading it for the romance.
The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.
With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.
Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
Humor is reason gone mad.
I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
For me, the ideal job as an actor would be something that is intrinsically a drama but to which I could bring in as much humor as possible.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.
You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
