Observational Humor Quotes

“Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“An Irish pub, such as you have seen a thousand times before. The kind where the emphasis is on the “ish” rather than on the proud name of Éire.”
― Sorin Suciu, In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett

“He cleared his throat, very carefully, to bring the stillness to a more bearable level without breaking the unwritten rule that governs both churches and freshly fallen blankets of snow.”
― Anna Mattaar, In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett

“Lettie sighed—wisdom seems to be highly correlated with sighing.”
― Laura May, In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett

“There was something funny I saw while travelling about which I remember thinking “oh, that’s worth telling the readers about,” only now I can’t remember what it was. It may have involved a waiter. Or possibly a ceramic tile. I’d have to go into a sensory deprivation tank to catch the tail of that memory and I’m not sure I have the time to do that before my dinner’s ready.”
― Robert Wringham, Stern Plastic Owl

“Observation:

Thanks to technological advances, avid readers seem to be replacing DTBAD (Dead Tree Book Acquisition Disorder) with an alphabet soup of more more modern-day hoarding behaviors: EBAD (E-Book Acquistion Disorder), EGAD (Electronic Gadget Acquisition Disorder), and ABAD (Audiobook Acquisition Disorder). Of course, there's also MYBAD (Movie and YouTube Acquisition Disorder: the hoarding or obsessive viewing of digital films and videos, some based on books). If any of these syndromes describes you, take heart: there's probably an app for that! - 8/9/2013”
― Lisa Tolliver

“Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.”
― Laurence Stallings

“A Politician's survival kit:
Please the majority, comfort the minority,
keep the rich in the loop and the poor disillusioned.”
― Daksh Tyagi, A Nation of Idiots

“People keep saying this is the digital age. I don't agree.
We are not in the digital age.
We are in the age of digital rage.”
― Daksh Tyagi

“As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.”
― Michelle M. Pillow

“Anger and happiness can go well together if you learn to smile in times of trouble.”
― Jackson Taviri

“We are not in the digital age.
We are in the age of digital rage.”
― Daksh Tyagi

“It’s amazing how religions grow but the religious do not.”
― Daksh Tyagi, The Radicalist

“For those in power to do the wrong thing, all they need is for the majority to look the wrong way.”
― Daksh Tyagi, The Radicalist

“I criticise society and people, and often with a provocative choice of words. But in my defence, there is no unprovocative way to effectively criticise a society.”
― Daksh Tyagi, The Radicalist

“You have a make-believe friend, it’s a disease. You have a make-believe caretaker, that’s a religion.”
― Daksh Tyagi, The Radicalist

“A government elected on the basis of religion will discriminate on its behalf.”
― Daksh Tyagi, The Radicalist

“Six human species evolved, only Homo sapiens survived… but Pakistan proudly hosts the seventh: Homopakiens — found mostly on social media, debating loudly, thinking rarely.”
― Muhammad Ijaz Ul Haq