The Importance Of Joking Quotes & Sayings

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs
which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood. — Ralph Ellison

That's a big giant fuck if there ever was one. — Cora Carmack

Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency. — Hanif Kureishi

And that is what a writer is - a traveller between identities, a smuggler of souls. — Mia Couto

I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. — Toni Morrison

The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money. — Tony Oliva

Now that I am burned out and I'll never
accomplish anything, I've got this nice position at the university teaching
classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for
pleasure, I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without
worrying about any importance whatsoever. — Richard Feynman

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts
that and nothing more. — Willa Cather