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Jack Handy Funny Quotes #2

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

How do blind people know when they are done “wiping?”

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?

If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?

Should crematoriums give discounts for burn victims?

If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film.

Put on your seatbelt….. I wanna try something.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Chocolate: the OTHER major food group.

Death is hereditary.

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.

Jack Handy QuotesMultitasking – screwing up several things at once.

Arachibutyrophobia : fear of peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable – until I realized it wasn’t a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!

Most people don’t realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.

Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I’ll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I’m gone, but you know what I’ve left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it’s head with a note that says “You.” After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It’s a shark riding on an elephant’s back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said “Watch for Rocks.” Marta said it should read “Watch for Pretty Rocks.” I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke – just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn’t seem quite so funny.

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.

When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we’d all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn’t until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.

The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I’d like to have one of those little beds with my name on it. The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I’ll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn’t get more meat, I’ll just say, “Oh, you mean this?” and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I’ve hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?

Alexander Calder Quotes

Today we celebrate Alexander Calder’s Birthday in our own way, sharing Alexander Calder Quotes. Please enjoy and choose your favorite :)

I paint with shapes. – Alexander Calder Quotes

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six. – Alexander Calder Quotes

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect. – Alexander Calder Quotes

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. – Alexander Calder Quotes

alexander calder quotesFrom the beginning of my abstract work, even when it might not have seemed so, I felt there was no better model for me to choose than the Universe – Alexander Calder Quotes

When an artist explains what he is doing he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his subsequent work fit in with the explanation. – Alexander Calder Quotes

A knowledge of and sympathy with the qualities of the materials used are essential to proper treatment. – Alexander Calder Quotes

Each element can move, shift or sway back & forth in a changing relation to each of the other elements in the universe. Thus, they reveal not only isolated moments, but a physical law or variation among the elements of life. Not extractions, but abstractions. Abstractions which resemble no living things except by their manner of reacting. – Alexander Calder Quotes

With a mechanical drive you can control the thing like the choreography in a ballet and superimpose various movements.. a great number, even, by means of cams and other mechanical devices. – Alexander Calder Quotes

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. – Alexander Calder Quotes

Keanu Reeves Quotes

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
Keanu Reeves

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.