Jokey Quotes

#1. 'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

Laura Mvula

#2. I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

Marian Keyes

#3. I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter

Gayle Forman

#4. Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.

Tracy Morgan

#5. Isherwood received bags of fan mail, far more than Tennessee Williams had for Memoirs. There was the sexual and jokey (a fifteen-year-old English schoolboy sent his photo and wrote on the back, "My tits are on fire").

Christopher Bram

#6. What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

Abbi Jacobson

#8. We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

Lawrence Durrell

#9. A war raged between my jokey and protective brain and my squishy and tender heart. I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.

Amy Poehler

#10. you niggers, is when you set in to tryin' to think," said Leander Purneau. He spoke in a friendly, jokey

James Patterson

#11. I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

Guillermo Del Toro

#12. Miguel tries to look jokey-penitent, but misses and looks like a man in white jeans who underestimates a spot of flatulence.

David Mitchell

#13. I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.

Cecily Strong

#14. You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.

Stephen Malkmus

#15. I'm a pretty hands-off director. I let people try things, and if it gets over-jokey, then I'll try and rein it in a little bit.

Joe Swanberg

#16. April marks the season when school begins. You wear your new school uniform, and I ask you to please be as unstylish as those fuji dawn flowers. If I find you that way, I may turn you into a gift of a potted plant against your will.

Novala Takemoto

#17. Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility. It has shown me limitless possibilities of living. It has given me people whose passion and kindness and sensitivity have provided a constant source of strength. It has brought me into the family of man, Mama, and I like it here.

Armistead Maupin

#18. What makes work fun is doing meaningful work.

Darren Hardy

#19. I love you. I love you so damn much it consumes me. I don't deserve you, but I'm gonna become the man who does deserve you. I promise you. I'll make you proud of me.

Abbi Glines

#20. Bless me, yes. There he is. He was very much attached to me, was Dick. Poor Dick! Dear, dear!

Charles Dickens

#21. Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Thomas A Kempis