Pat Conroy Quotes

You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.

Edward can do everything, right?" I explained. Jasper snickered and Esme gave Edward a reproving look. "I hope you haven't been showing off-it's rude," she scolded. "Just a bit," he laughed freely. "He's been too modest actually," I corrected. "Well, play for her," Esme encouraged. "You just said showing off was rude," he objected. "There are exceptions to every rule," she replied.

God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.

Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.

God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God would not have been able to create the world if he had no sense of humor. God is not serious at all. Seriousness is a state of disease; humor is health. Love, laughter, life, they are aspects of the same energy.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

I'll tickle his catastrophe.

I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

...the Gods too love a joke.

Jenks, you can fly me up the rest of the way to Trent, and then pow! I give Trent his statue." "Pow, you'll be naked!" Jenks exclaimed. (Rachel and Jenks)

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.

What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

Flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I'm the disco duck.

We learned sexual technique from our dog. He taught how to beg, and he taught my wife how to roll over and play dead.

Even the gods love jokes.

I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup.

It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's