Quotes About Funniness

#1. 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

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

Penelope Gilliatt

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

Desson Thomson

#4. 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

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

Betty White

#6. 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

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

Maurice Sendak

#8. 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

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

Chelsea Martin

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Stefan Molyneux

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

Scott Lynch

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

Meg Cabot

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

Sarah Rees Brennan

#18. 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

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

Andy Stanley

#20. 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

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

Elton John

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

Eoin Colfer

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

Tsugumi Ohba

#24. I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. 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