humor

"...because the 9/11 Commission wants to ask us questions, that's why we're meeting. And I look forward to meeting with them and answering their questions. Because it's a good chance for both of us to …"

"is one of the nicest American actors I have worked with."

"Tragedy is all about losing. And humor is all about gaining perspective. Humour returns our gladness. And with gladness comes generosity. Humor returns us to the light and makes us light—it kills grud…"

"I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices — it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I …"

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. It is vital to mourn the victims of this government, but not at the expense of losing our sense of humor. Our ability to laugh di…"

"Anything that can be laughed out of this world ought not to stay in it."

"It interests Americans that Canada is clean and empty and unimplicating; the largest country in the world that doesn’t exist. Without distinct music or food or capacity for rudeness— less rich, less a…"

"Below us the breakers flayed the land with white fists. They retreated and came back to flay it again. As each breaker retreated, the shoreline broke into an ever-widening grin. We coasted in second d…"

"I have determined never to remove a Secretary of the Treasury without communicating all the circumstances attending such removal to both Houses of Congress."

"We are not, or at least I am not, seeking either to become natives or to mimic them. Only romantics or spies would seem to find point in that. We are seeking, in the widened sense of the term in which…"

"So I come up with some ideas for the programmer to work with, and they decide what's good and what's impossible to implement,based on schedule or programming difficulty."

"'I was talking to one of the McArdles there and I was telling him that he ought to be getting a women. "Huh," says he, "what would I be doing with a woman? I have me pint and me fag," says he, "and I'…"

"Entirety exists within me as exuberance … in empty longing … in … the desire to burn with desire."

"Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice."

"Dissembling was the specialty of Broadway musicals. The storylines were scrupulously heterosexual. What could I have heard in them that made me think they explained me? It was this: The innocent chara…"

"Everything with a quantum in it, with 'h' in it, was exciting."

"With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious."

"I’ve gotten kicked in the face, got my nose broken, I’m constantly chipping teeth and there’s been a lot of very close calls with Hunter . In a recent show, if our movement had’ve been inches differen…"

"Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and …"

"Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones."