People Quotes

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

~ Samuel Butler

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

~ Adam Mckay

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

~ Dave Grohl

I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

~ Demetri Martin

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

~ Garth Brooks

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.

~ Julia Roberts

Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.

~ Mark Haddon

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

~ Malin Akerman

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

~ Artie Lange

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

~ Emo Philips

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

~ Carl Hiaasen

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

~ Todd Barry

I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most.

~ Sasha Grey

I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

~ Jessica Biel

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

~ Robert Crais

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

~ Olivia Munn

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

~ Stephen Leacock

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

~ Rob Corddry

I like to make jokes I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

~ Maria Shriver

I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty.

~ Kristen Johnston

I can play a cat lady. I can't put my foot down and refuse to play anything but playing the perfect, well-adjusted woman, because those people aren't as fun or funny.

~ Sarah Baker

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

~ Walter Lord

It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.

~ Rob Mcelhenney

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.

~ Paul Epworth

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

~ Alexander Chase

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

~ Salman Rushdie

I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.

~ Rachel Zoe

People can die of mere imagination.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

~ Bill Gates

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

~ Nick Cave

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

~ Terrence Mcnally

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

~ Edward P. Jones

I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.

~ Patti Smith

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

~ Tom Robbins

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

~ Steven Wright

Few people have the imagination for reality.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.

~ Missy Elliott