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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
— Novalis
Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.
— Tim Walberg
Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
— Lucille Roybal-Allard
Dreams look real, but they're in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind can affect reality in more ways than you can imagine.
— Stephen LaBerge
When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
— Janet McTeer
Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.
— Stephen LaBerge
The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.
— Winnie Holzman
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
— Joy Page
Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.
— Albert Claude
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
— Jean Genet
And our dreams are who we are.
— Barbara Sher
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
— Andre Breton
My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
— Abraham Cahan
To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.
— Josh Hopkins
I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.
— Janet Montgomery
The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.
— Stedman Graham
I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody can do anything that they set their mind to. So if you set your mind to do something, and you exhaust every opportunity, I think you're going to get there.
— Josie Loren
I never remember my dreams.
— Freddie Stroma
Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling.
— Tom Verica
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
— Amy Lowell
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
— Donald G. Mitchell
I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.
— Krista Allen
I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.
— Jeff Mangum
The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.
— Andrew Card
Dreams do come true if you work hard and you get your head down.
— Kyla Reid
We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.
— Herb Brooks
A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.
— Joan Lunden
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
— Cameron Sinclair
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.
— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
— E. V. Lucas
More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
— Gregory David Roberts
Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. 
— Olive Schreiner
When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.
— Tim Walker
I hardly ever remember my dreams.
— Tyler Blackburn
I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.
— Scott Patterson
At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.
— Linton Kwesi Johnson
You have to dream dreams to live dreams.
— Eric Lindros
For over two centuries, Americans have grown up in a society that rewards hard work, protects innovation, and allows its citizens to constantly break new barriers. The key element to this success rests on freedom and the ability of individuals to strive toward achieving their dreams and making their children's futures better than their own.
— Renee Ellmers
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
— Adam Duritz
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
— Bill McCartney
Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.
— Amandla Stenberg
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
— Lenny Wilkens
Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.
— Brian Jacques
In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
— Louise Brooks
If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.
— Mike Hawkins
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
— Romain Rolland
Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.
— Leonor Varela
I tell kids to have dreams, have goals, and believe in them because if you have any doubt, worry or fear, it will choke the life out of your dreams and goals.
— Torii Hunter
He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.
— Hugo Pratt
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
— Susan L. Taylor
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
— Gail Godwin
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
— Cleveland Abbe
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
— Lope de Vega
We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem - even to you - I don't care: You have to let that out.
— Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
— Dorothy Gilman
I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
— Jack Gilbert
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
— Henry Timrod
Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing.
— Ali-Ollie Woodson
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
— John Wooden
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
— Jim DeMint
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
— Wade Boggs
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
— Frank Abagnale
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
— Euripides
My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.
— David Lauren
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
— Naveen Jain
Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
— Kent Nerburn
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
— George Herbert
Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
— Conrad Hall
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
— Tiger Woods
I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
— Mark Wahlberg
My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.
— Cher Lloyd
My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
— Michael Jordan
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'
— Paul Walker
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
— Robert Frost
Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.
— Maria Sharapova
Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
— Wayne Rooney
I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.
— Max Lucado
I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
— Dante Hall
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
— Victor Hugo
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.
— David Beckham
Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.
— Al Unser
I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
— Bo Jackson
I admire my father greatly.
— Kojo Annan
I have a Father's Day every day.
— Dennis Banks
It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
— Liam Neeson
It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was. 
— Anne Sexton
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
— William Graham Sumner
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
— Hedy Lamarr
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
— Ben Okri
My role model is my dad.
— Seann William Scott
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
— Sidney Poitier
I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
— Adam Sandler
My Dad is my hero.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
— Kid Rock
I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. 
— Gordon Brown
To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.
— Nick Lachey
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
— T. D. Jakes
I was raised by my father I was daddy's girl. 
— Amber Heard
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
— Matthew Modine
I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.
— Yehuda Berg
The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.
— George Best
I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.
— Mike Myers
My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.
— Bubba Watson
I'm always going to love my father.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.
— Dwyane Wade
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
— Harlan Coben
I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.
— Rod Stewart
We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
— Wynton Marsalis
In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.
— Margaret Heffernan
I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
— Christopher Meloni
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
— Wendell Phillips
When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.
— Jennifer Grant
Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.
— Lara St. John
I'm a good dad I spend a lot of time with my kids. 
— Steve Zahn
The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy.
— Austin Peck
Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'
— Michael Gurian
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
— Gloria Naylor
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.
— Rashida Jones
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
— Will Rogers
I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.
— Nicole Scherzinger
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
— Madonna Ciccone
Laughter is an instant vacation.
— Milton Berle
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
— Dr. Seuss
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
— Steven Wright
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
— Victor Borge
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
— Sam Walton
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
— Max Irons
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
— Lee Atwater
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
— Bret Michaels
Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
— Barack Obama
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
— Brian Eno
I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
— Anne Wilson Schaef
Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
— Ed Sheeran
Honestly, I like someone who is really grounded, super sweet, honest. I need them to have a sense of humor. I need them to laugh at what's funny, I need them to get jokes and be funny and be witty and sarcastic.
— Casper Smart
I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.
— Victoria Beckham
In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.'
— Michael Keaton
It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
— Betty White
If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird... 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so... if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.
— Nick Vujicic
If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.
— Salma Hayek
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
— Bill Cosby
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
— John Gerzema
Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
— Ellen DeGeneres
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
— Jandy Nelson
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
— Bill Hicks
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
— Bob Newhart
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
— Jacob Riis
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
— Joseph Pulitzer
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
— Horatio Nelson
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
— Allen Klein
My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.
— Michael Kors
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
— Jesse Ventura
A joke's a very serious thing.
— Charles Churchill
Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
— Allen Klein
My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.
— Bill Burr
Humor comes from self-confidence.
— Rita Mae Brown
Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gaming and we're familiar with in gaming and being like, 'OK, hold on, let's re-examine this for a second. Isn't this funny? Isn't this strange? Isn't this a little bit ridiculous?' That's where it is.
— Freddie Wong
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
— David Sedaris
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
— Paul Simon
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
— Simon Wiesenthal
I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to each other. It almost doesn't matter what the genre is.
— Jeff Giles
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
— Bill Nye
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it. 
— Malcolm Muggeridge
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
— Bob Hope
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
— Lou Holtz
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.
— Carmen Electra
The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.
— Jon Favreau
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
— Charles Bukowski
I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.
— Tyler, The Creator
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
— E. B. White
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
— Edmund Hillary
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
— Allen Klein
As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.
— Priscilla Presley
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
— Ralph Fiennes
Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
— Wentworth Miller
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
— Robert Collier
You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.
— Harvey Pekar
We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a piece of paper, and that's what makes you someone's favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that's why we're their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we're their favorite.
— Gigi Hadid
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
— Mason Cooley
Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
— Jonathan Winters
We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.
— Jeff Foxworthy
I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
— Steve Jobs
I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
— Tanit Phoenix
Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is. 
— Francis Bacon
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
— Tom DeLonge
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
— Ned Rorem
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
— Horace Walpole
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
— Hugh Sidey
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
— Leo Rosten
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
— Mark Twain
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven. 
— Mark Twain
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
— Moliere
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
— Robert Frost
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
— William Arthur Ward
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
— Woody Allen
Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
— Jimmy Buffett
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
— Carol Burnett
People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
— Gary Oldman
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.
— Michael Buble
You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.
— Kesha
There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.
— Steve Buscemi
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
— David Lynch
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
— Alan Thicke
A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.
— Dav Pilkey
Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.
— Arlo Guthrie
I love dry British humor. I love to sketch in my off time. I love tequila.
— Maren Morris
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
— Edward de Bono
The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
— Karen Hughes
I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
— Alton Brown
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
— Xun Kuang
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
— Frank Moore Colby
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
— Richard Russo
I am often the brunt of my own humor.
— Charles R. Swindoll
I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.
— Logan Henderson
I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
— Maira Kalman
My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
— Padmasree Warrior
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
— Tom Robbins
As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
— Jodie Foster
Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.
— Mort Sahl
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
— John Cassavetes
I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.
— Daryl Hall
I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes.
— Sarah Hyland
I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.
— Parker Young
Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.
— Marcel Duchamp
There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.
— Billy Collins
Ad agencies do all kinds of market research that ask people what they think they want, and instead, you should be creating things that you want. If you do something and you get it, the rest of the world will get it, too. Trust your own instincts, your own intellect, and your own sense of humor.
— George Lois
I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
— Sam Yagan
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
What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
— Carrie Fisher
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
— Dick Clark
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
— Cynthia P. Schneider
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
— Thomas Jefferson
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
— John Callahan
Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.
— Martin Sheen
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
— Mark Twain
I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.
— Paula Poundstone
I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.
— George Takei
Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'
— Helen Mirren
My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.
— Michael J. Fox
Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.
— Betty White
I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.
— Tommy Lee Jones
Humor is very healing.
— Bonnie Hunt
In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
— Gail Sheehy
If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.
— Lynda Barry
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
— James Thurber
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
— Russell Baker
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.
— Al Yankovic
After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.
— Amanda Lindhout
Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things, I failed miserably at.
— Issa Rae
Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.
— Marlon Wayans
Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.
— Allen Klein
Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.
— Allen Klein
They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.
— Bill Burr
I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.
— Teddy Thompson
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
— Peter Eisenman
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
— Billy Collins
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
— Issa Rae
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
— D. H. Lawrence
I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.
— Rick Riordan
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
— Seth MacFarlane
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
— Patch Adams
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
— Christopher Hitchens
While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
— Randy Forbes
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.
— Jon Scieszka
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
— Adam Smith
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
— Allen Klein
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
— William Temple
My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.
— John Hodgman
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
— Sinclair Lewis
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
— Flip Wilson
It's a funny old world.
— Margaret Thatcher
I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
— Michael J. Fox
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
— Jonathan Swift
A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
— Ivan Reitman
You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.
— Terry Bradshaw
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
— Anne Lamott
Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
— Al Franken
Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.
— Don Rickles
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
— Lenny Bruce
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
— H. L. Mencken
I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.
— Terry Crews
My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.
— Brad Thor
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
— James Thurber
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
— Harry S Truman
Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
— Peter Jennings
With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.
— Shawnee Smith
People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it's fun, and it's positive, and it's a healer. Laughter is God's gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it.
— Goldie Hawn
Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
— Berkeley Breathed
Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
— Allen Klein
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
— William Gilmore Simms
Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.
— Katie Aselton
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
— H. G. Wells
When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
— Tina Fey
I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.
— Steven Wright