Observational Humor Quotes

#1. The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that, you have much more observational humor.

Robert Mankoff

#2. Everyone has their personal topics. My comedy has always been very strong on observational humor, it stems from what I see every day in my life.

Iliza Shlesinger

#3. I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

Richard Lewis

#4. The only ironic thing about that song is that it's called 'Ironic' and it is written by a woman who doesn't know what irony is. That's quite ironic when you think about it.

(on Alanis Morissette's 'Ironic')

Ed Byrne

#5. What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success.

Archibald Marwizi

#6. Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit - may the hair on his toes never fall out!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, and then everything burst into flames.

Brian P. Cleary

#8. There's no such thing as free kittens.

Brian P. Cleary

#9. When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.

Brian P. Cleary

#10. Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

Julia Bacha

#11. It's not technically gossip if you start your sentence with "I'm really concerned about ," (fill in the name of the person you're not gossiping about).

Brian P. Cleary

#12. The earth has a life of its own.

David Bailey

#13. I thought she'd make some comment about the bloodthirsty gods chasing us, but when she finally found her voice, she said, "That boy kissed you!"
Leave it to Liz to have her priorities straight.

Rick Riordan

#14. ...it's not him that you're still pining after, it's the lost time. You're mourning what should've been more so than what really was. You feel robbed as well you should, but not for the right reasons.

Jordan Silver

#15. I would've blown away every last runner that time. Because at the end of this finish line wasn't a trophy - it was Macallan.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#16. Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on "Big Bang Theory" lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#17. Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted.

Paul Ekman

#18. He cleared his throat, very carefully, to bring the stillness to a more bearable level without breaking the unwritten rule that governs both churches and freshly fallen blankets of snow.

Anna Mattaar

#19. Lettie sighed - wisdom seems to be highly correlated with sighing.

Laura May

#20. We have lost, as James Hillman once put it, the response of the heart to what is presented to the senses.

Stephen Harrod Buhner

#21. I knew it would lead to this. All week ... I knew I'd have to see her again.

E.L. James

#22. You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs ... They thought that just because they were smashing eggs they must be making an omelette

Cynthia Voigt

#23. Not only is love blind, it's a little hard of hearing.

Brian P. Cleary

#24. The smartest man in the room doesn't visit many rooms.

Garrett McCoy

#25. Tuesdays are the worst. They are the spoiled leftovers of Mondays, repackaged with a new expiry date.

Sorin Suciu

#26. The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

Roland Barthes

#27. If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she'll still display it on her desk at work.

Brian P. Cleary

#28. Whatever I won in cycling, I won with my own skills. I never won anything I couldn't win. For example, I never won a time trial at 60 kph, whereas others have and maybe still do.

Danilo Di Luca

#29. Chances are, if we can't laugh at something, we can't think rationally about it.

Clay A. Johnson

#30. As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.

Michelle M. Pillow

#31. Norway ... looked to Roosevelt as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe ... It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king.

Edmund Morris

#32. Lost is lost; it's when you want someone to hold you but there is no one who can. Lost is alone, even when people are all around you.

Kristin Hannah

#33. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.

Oscar Wilde