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" Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it. "

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" I hang out with the 'nerdy' people - they have a different sense of humor than most kids. "

" I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture. "

" Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles. "

" A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say. "

" I am often the brunt of my own humor. "

Charles R. Swindoll

" By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us. "

" A day without laughter is a day wasted. "

Charlie Chaplin

" Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. "

Simon Wiesenthal

" 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. "

" Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. "

" Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. "

Langston Hughes

" What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. "

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" Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. "

" I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke. "

" 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.' "

" People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning. "

" Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. "

" Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. "

" I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice. "

" Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. "

" Most of the time, the truth is ugly and in your face! My observational brand of humor is very much all in your face! "

" When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do. "

" I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way. "

" Gags die, humor doesn't. "

" 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. "

" I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart. "

" 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