Nora Roberts Quotes

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

One thing a person won't do when he's laughing is try to beat you up.

Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

Why would I kill someone I don't know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and havent't killed any of them?

No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life." "Why?" he asked, opening both his eyes. "Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?

It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

I see those picketers, and I think you know, if I weren't a loving, non-violent, spiritual person, I would really go over there and grab those signs and smash them over their heads and shove them up their asses. But...I'm a loving, spiritual person.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother