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Quotes About Expression

I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humor. I make sure they are 'in good taste.' Either you understand it or not.
~ Mel Ramos
I bought myself a parrot, but it did not say "I'm hungry", and so it died.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.
~ Norman Mailer
Unlikely things to see in a Valentine's card - "I may be dyslexic but that doesn't mean I don't vole you."
~ Russell Howard
A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier.
~ Frank Leahy
Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.
~ Brittany Daniel
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.
~ Dave Barry
If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.
~ Steven Wright
Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?
~ George Carlin
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
~ Bill Hicks
You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.
~ Dylan Moran
Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.
~ Carl Reiner
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
~ Erma Bombeck
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
~ Dorothy Parker
Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
~ Chad Smith
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
~ Dorothy Parker
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
~ George Saunders
I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.
~ Dianne Wiest
It's a very important skill set for an actor to be able to bring the humor into any moment, whether you're doing drama or comedy.
~ Nathaniel Buzolic
You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
~ Abe Burrows
I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.
~ Mitch Hedberg
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
~ Bill Bryson