Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.
You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Humor is reason gone mad.
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
We do not take humor seriously enough.
The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.