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Jokes Quotes (page 8)

Bob Dylan quote: "When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke"
When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke Bob Dylan
Tom Robbins quote: "He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but..."
He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated. Tom Robbins
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood. Gloria Steinem
Bob Dylan quote: "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke."
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. Bob Dylan
Christopher Hitchens quote: "A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss."
A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss. Christopher Hitchens
Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself. Fyodor Dostoevsky
He turned away and offered his hand in parting. She didn't take it or say anything. But from where I was behind the door I could see her face through the crack. I pitied her to see how deathly pale that sweet little face had gone. Hearing no answer, Pechorin took a few steps towards the door. He was trembling, and I might say I think he was fit to do what he'd threatened as a joke. That's the sort of man he was, there was no knowing him. Mikhail Lermontov
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke Herman Hesse
Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls. Martin Amis
What's with the serum?"I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to be trusted. Might do almost anything...Turn a massacre into a sex orgy..."Or a joke."Precisely. Arty type...No principles... William S. Burroughs
Justin Bieber quote: "Whenever I'm sick, my doctor jokes that I have Beiber Fever!"
Whenever I'm sick, my doctor jokes that I have Beiber Fever! Justin Bieber
Doug Coupland quote: "I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be..."
I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything. Doug Coupland
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are..."
The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. Kurt Vonnegut
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature. Jorge Luis Borges
Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight. Gene Wolfe

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