Situatiehumor Quotes & Sayings

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster. — Prince

It does the heart good to look at you. — W. Somerset Maugham

Many massacres have happened when people yell surprise! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die? — Christopher Titus

Come with me where dreams are born and time is never planned. — J.M. Barrie

That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again. — Ricky Gervais

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of. — Stephen Graham Jones

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage. — George S. Patton Jr.

I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire. — Lynn Westmoreland

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. — Frank Church

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic. — Louisa May Alcott

The college library was a high beautiful space, designed and built and paid for by people who believed that those who sat at the long tables before open books - even those who were hung-over, sleepy, resentful, and uncomprehending - should have space above them, panels of dark gleaming wood around them, high windows bordered with Latin admonitions, through which to look at the sky. For a few years before they went into schoolteaching or business or began to rear children, they should have that. And now it was my turn and I should have it too. — Alice Munro

Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle. — Genevieve Gorder

It occurred to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night in the shit field, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain. — Tim O'Brien

(Taking shelter in bathrooms is a surprisingly common phenomenon, as you probably know if you're an introvert. — Susan Cain