Feeling Like A Joke Quotes

#1. Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas'
- that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind
without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.

Alfred North Whitehead

#2. I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#3. The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

Thomas A. Edison

#4. I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

Whitney Houston

#5. I like to prowl ordinary places.
I feel sorry for us all or glad for us
all
caught alive together
and awkward in that way.
there's nothing better than the joke
of us
the seriousness of us
the dullness of us

Charles Bukowski

#6. Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate.

Jake M. Johnson

#7. I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

Lorraine Toussaint

#8. The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

Christopher Fowler

#9. M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end of her life.

Ruth Reichl

#10. I am still capable of feeling used. I am still capable of having a sexual experience that makes me feel like my entire life has been a mean joke.

Charlotte Shane

#11. If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Charles Horton Cooley

#12. He would joke around, make a few friends, pretend that nothing bothered him, but he always ended up running sooner or later. It was the only thing that made the pain better - feeling like he was moving, getting father and farther away.

Rick Riordan

#13. I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you're giving some laughs up for it.

Jon Favreau

#14. If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

Rumi

#15. I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

Nick Carter