The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with…

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: Success Quotes

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch...

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch...

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between...

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between...

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at...

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at...

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours....

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours....

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or...

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or...

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather...

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather...

Discussion in America means dissent.

Discussion in America means dissent.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have...

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have...

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support...

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support...