“One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.”
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“God has a most wicked sense of humor.”
“There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.”
“I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.”
“Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.”
“Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.”
“There's always a source for humor.”
“If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.”
“The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.”
“When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.”
“The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.”
“I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.”
“One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.”
“It's hard to force creativity and humor.”
“In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.”
“My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.”
“I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.”
“The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.”
“I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.”
“I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.”
“Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.”
“I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.”
“Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.”
“My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.”