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" 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

Humor

News

Power

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" Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. "

" 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. "

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

E. B. White

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Interested

" Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss. "

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

" If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. "

" The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. "

" A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Laughter is an instant vacation. "

" I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. "

" There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. "

" I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper. "

" Humor is the most engaging cowardice. "

" 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. "

" Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. "

" There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. "

" The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. "

" The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. "

" I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people. "

" 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. "

" Humor is reason gone mad. "

" 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. "

" Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. "

" I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me. "

Jeff Bridges

Myself

Brother