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.
~ André Breton
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
~ Peter Ustinov
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
~ Allen Klein
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
~ Frank Muir
I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.
~ Joss Whedon
Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.
~ Alex Pareene
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
~ Danny Boyle
Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
~ Jen Lancaster
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.
~ Lisa Lutz
The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
~ Terrence Howard
Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.
~ Lynn Shelton
Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.
~ John Ross Bowie
The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.
~ Mike Rowe
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
~ William Collins
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
~ George C. Marshall
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
~ Omar N. Bradley
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
~ George Orwell
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
~ Will Rogers
The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
~ John Randolph
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
~ James Altucher
You always pass failure on your way to success.
~ Mickey Rooney
I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
~ Cate Blanchett
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
~ Rumi
The way to know life is to love many things.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
~ Plato
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
~ Euripides
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin
I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
~ Mayim Bialik
The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.
~ Alan Thicke
Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.'
~ Robert Pattinson
It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.
~ Rob Lowe
I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
~ Ziggy Marley
I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
~ The Weeknd
I love being in the studio. Expressing myself that way is really cool.
~ Keke Palmer