Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
‐‐ John Scalzi
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
‐‐ Heinrich Boll
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith
Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.
‐‐ Bob Newhart
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
‐‐ Victor Borge
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
‐‐ Lynda Barry
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
‐‐ Ned Rorem
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
‐‐ Leo Rosten
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
‐‐ Max Eastman
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
‐‐ Robert Frost
Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.
‐‐ James Howe
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.
‐‐ Sid Fleischman
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
‐‐ Stan Laurel
Humor is very healing.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.
‐‐ David Lynch
Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.
‐‐ Mark Russell
Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.
‐‐ Robert Mankoff
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
‐‐ Mark Twain
Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken
Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.
‐‐ Bob Newhart
Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
‐‐ Kara Walker
Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster
Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
‐‐ Robert Orben
Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.
‐‐ Jeff Ross
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
‐‐ Milos Forman
Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina
Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.
‐‐ Kristan Higgins
Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.
‐‐ Kristan Higgins
Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.
‐‐ James Gleick
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck
Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
‐‐ Mark Haddon
Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.
‐‐ Brooke Shields
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
‐‐ George Murray
Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
‐‐ Cyndi Lauper
Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.
‐‐ Martin Freeman
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
‐‐ Takeshi Kitano
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
‐‐ Simon Wiesenthal
Hundreds of ballplayers have performed well after Tommy John surgery, in which an elbow ligament is replaced by material from elsewhere on the body. More and more, athletes will perform with a bit of this or a bit of that in a joint or muscle.
‐‐ George Vecsey
Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
‐‐ Hans Kung
Hundreds of people are undergoing gene therapy today. There are no known neurological issues.
‐‐ Liz Parrish
Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
‐‐ Douglas Adams
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley
Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment.
‐‐ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
‐‐ George W. Bush
Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
‐‐ Lajos Kossuth