Quotes About Punchlines

#1. If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.

Darren Boyd

#2. Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.

Mark McKinnon

#3. My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

Mike Stud

#4. Musically, I want to graduate and become one of the greatest. You can't do that just spitting punchlines. I respect those people who say they love that old style, but it would be greedy of them to want me to stay that same person.

Chamillionaire

#5. On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.

Bill Hicks

#6. One of the challenges with series TV is not to give everyone all the punchlines, all the gags and all the fun stuff at the top. Everyone is so anxious, for very good reasons, to hit the ground running, but I've been on the other end of that.

Bruno Heller

#7. My music started out as a complete joke, so really all I was doing was going for witty punchlines to make all of my buddies laugh.

Mike Stud

#8. The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.

Mark Billingham

#9. A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

Stanley Kubrick

#10. Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

Marianne Williamson

#11. There's so much to write. Where should I start?
I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:
'You should start where you are

Ruth Ozeki

#12. We have but a single moment at our disposal. Let us transform that moment into eternity. No other form of immortality exists

Nikos Kazantzakis

#13. When he came home that night he was in a very somber mood, having begun to see at last how those might be right who had laughed at him for his faith in America.

Upton Sinclair

#14. As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we need to acknowledge is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Pema Chodron

#15. The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

Gary Chapman

#16. You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Cass McCombs

#17. Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.

Arthur C. Clarke