Quotes on Funny

It's funny: when people always talk about the importance of role models, I used to think that was so exaggerated, but as I get older, I start to realize I don't feel that way so much anymore. If you see somebody like you who's doing something, an older version of what you are, it does make you feel like it's more possible.

There's a difference between being a comic and a comedian. A comic is a guy who says funny things, and a comedian is a guy who says things funny, and he has a style and point of view that will last much longer.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."

I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into.

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.