quotes about Hilarity

last updated: November 28, 2023

Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.
-- James Berardinelli

Source : "Norbit (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.
-- Jill Ciment

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My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.
-- Scott Thompson

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New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.
-- Lucius Beebe

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“Relax, don't worry, have a home brew.”

Source : Charlie Papazian (2010). “The Homebrewer's Companion”, p.10, Harper Collins
“Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.”
“I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I'd train in Gauteng and just dive into the sea off Antarctica... You've really got to do a simulated test as best you can in South Africa before you go off.”
“I'm vulnerable most when I'm in love.”
“I think we have to keep putting women's sports in the limelight. I thought the Women's World Cup did a wonderful job of showing the quality of women's soccer. But we also need coverage and marketing and press and getting these female athletes to become household names.”

Source : "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.
“Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.”
“There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.”
“Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.”
“There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left for him was to act.”
“A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.”

Source : Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal (2011). “Intellectual Impostures”, p.196, Profile Books