Quotes About Funniness

#1. Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

Penelope Gilliatt

#2. One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.

Emily Perkins

#3. The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle: That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.
- David Foster Wallace, "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness" (2005)

David Foster Wallace

#4. You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny.

Sheena Iyengar

#5. I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. I felt sorry for this little man with the big name as he strutted his stuff, feeding hungrily off the adoration he saw in others' eyes. For all his funniness, he seemed to me very sad.

Sue Ellen Browder

#7. Manga just needs to be interesting. If it is then it will get serialized.

Tsugumi Ohba

#8. I think funniness is a sign of intelligence.

Chelsea Martin

#9. It felt like my teeth were sweating. Eoin Colfer's The Legend of Spud Murphy

Eoin Colfer

#10. I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.

Elton John

#11. I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze
and so do you.
Not out of disrespect.
Out of pique.
Out of a man-to-man thing.

Anne Sexton

#12. What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.

Andy Stanley

#13. Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]

Thurgood Marshall

#14. You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

Jason Gann

#15. I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Maurice Sendak

#16. How many fingers am I holding up?" he inquired. Lucille regarded him blearily and said, "Avocado.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#17. Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

Maurice Sendak

#18. Whatever. Boris, must you constantly breathe on me?

Meg Cabot

#19. Why were all his fantasies so calamitous for that table, which had done him no injury?

Scott Lynch

#20. I'm sure a few marriages broke up because of feminism; it doesn't make feminism a cult.

Stefan Molyneux

#21. When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.

Betty White

#22. I loved Monty Python for the wordplay
this sense that you didn't have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny.

George Saunders

#23. I do like a bit of flyin'. Comedy flying is one of my favourite things. I think it rates up there with a neck brace for funniness.

Jennifer Saunders

#24. I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

Craig Zobel

#25. Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation,

Desson Thomson