#humor

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#ayn rand #because #compassion #economical #fiction

The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#age

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect. ↗

— Loretta Swit

#assumed #because #characters #everybody #had

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#articles #best #dress #good #humor

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#entirely #factual #first #first amendment #free

He was rewarded with a silver-and-red can of soda. He brandished it at the dolphin warriors as if spraying them with bug repellant. "Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!" The dolphin-men began to panic. They were on the edge of retreat. Percy could feel it. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#diet

Wit is the lowest form of humor. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#form #lowest #lowest form #wit

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#funny #however #humor #will

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages. ↗

— Selma Blair

#around #audience #bathroom #been #easy

I am often the brunt of my own humor. ↗