Peggy Noonan Quotes

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

George Saunders is the funniest. He makes me laugh in the way I want to laugh - with so much empathy and deep understanding of people. He illuminates things and people I've never thought about - and I've dedicated my life to the study of people and their idiosyncrasies. He is light years ahead.

'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it's just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

My comedy is different than a lot of people's.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

I'm not much of a joke writer.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

I think comedy has to be very fearless, or it just gets bland.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.