Deprecating Humor Quotes

#1. I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.

Vince Vaughn

#2. When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

John Ortberg

#3. I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

Robert Reich

#4. Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was no humor in Cleveland. And they are not making this a Donald Trump.

Mark Shields

#5. I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

Rachael Ray

#6. You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor.

Josh Hutcherson

#7. What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?

David Mitchell

#8. I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.

Jeremy Grantham

#9. Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

Robert B. Parker

#10. The power of giving is beyond measure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the accordion, and they've made a real art of their inability to bake proper bread.

Sasa Stanisic

#12. Ah God," has gasped. "Mine."

~Sed

Olivia Cunning

#13. I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

Peter Eisenman

#14. I don't have but two teeth, but thank the Lord they both hit together.

Karen Cecil Smith

#15. All I meant to say is that a rake's humor has its basis in cruelty. He needs a victim, for he cannot imagine ever laughing at himself. You, your grace, are rather clever with the self-deprecating remark.

Julia Quinn

#16. I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Simon Pegg

#17. It is not proper, you being closeted up here with him
"
"Delphinia, don't be absurd. I am so firmly on the shelf that the maids are tempted to dust me.

Meredith Duran

#18. Heaven, hell, and earth, three that are one
there can be no change above or below that isn't mirrored here. This world, where our lives are spent, is both a lockand a lever.

Mark Lawrence

#19. If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

#20. Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.

Peter Lynch

#21. we will never be truly capable of 'loving our neighbour' as long as we continue to view the people around us as commodities, capital or competition

Tristan Sherwin

#22. I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.

Leni Zumas

#23. She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

Ann Brashares

#24. Eccentricities, of which I know I have
many, do not hold universal sexual and romantic lure. I understand that.

Jessica Park

#25. I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.

Joe R. Lansdale

#26. The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.

Gautama Buddha

#27. Although I feel directing is a lot more challenging, fulfilling and satisfying, it is also far more stressful & consuming. This is why I don't see myself directing one film after another in quick succession.

Nandita Das

#28. Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

Dan Miller