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"Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, 'Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know.' He stared telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought 'This story isn't too long.' But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, 'Uh-oh, this story is getting long.' But then the story was over, and I said to myself 'You know, that story wasn't too long after all.' I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision." »Penn Jillette
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"There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." »Mark Twain
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"The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny." »Tennessee Williams
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"A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul." »Eric Pio
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"All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape." »A. C. Benson
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"Isn't it funny how we'll look out the window at the moon, and then we notice it's not the moon but a streetlight Also what's funny is how we do this every night." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha" »Ian Hay
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"There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again." »Rogers Turrentine
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"Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?" »Howard Zinn
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"From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere." »Dr. Seuss
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"When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"funny is an attitude." »Flip Wilson
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"If you can't be funny, be interesting." »Harold Ross
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""It's your story, run with it"" »Tom Zegan
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"The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are." »Jon Kabit-Zinn
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"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else." »Will Rogers
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"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." »Peter Ustinov
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"We are the hero of our own story." »Mary McCarthy
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"You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things." »Ken Kesey
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"It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave." »Quentin Crisp
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"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny." »Guy
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"funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible." »David Ogilvie
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"It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny." »Guy Davenport
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"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." »John Barth
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