Pun Quotes - Page 2

• Me siento con derecho a pisotear todas las demás consideraciones en mi búsqueda de un juego de palabras satisfactorio.

  Neal Stephenson

  Dirt, Consideration, Pursuit

  Neal Stephenson (1994). “Snow Crash”, p.481, Penguin UK

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• If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

  Tim Vine

  Si

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• Todo el mundo dice que no tengo sentido del humor, entonces construyo un juego de palabras perfectamente sólido en torno a una condición psicológica bien conocida, y es ignorado.

  Eoin Colfer

  Sound, Sense Of Humor, Ignored

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• Los juegos de palabras son el excremento de ingenios desbordantes.

  Victor Hugo

  Dropping, Wit, Soar

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• La gente cree que los sueños no son reales porque no están hechos de materia, de partículas. Los sueños son reales. Pero están hechos de puntos de vista, de imágenes, de recuerdos y juegos de palabras y esperanzas perdidas.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspiring, Dream, Memories

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• A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor.

  Harriet Hosmer

  Long, Sparkle, Champagne

  Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”

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• I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.

  Terry Pratchett

  Good Life, Believe, Doe

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• For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.

  Tim Vine

  Real, Real Life, One Thing

  "Jeremy and Tim Vine - the unlikeliest double-act around". Saga Magazine Interview, www.saga.co.uk. August 20, 2014.

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• Juego de palabras: Una forma de ingenio a la que se rebajan los sabios y aspiran los tontos.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Swings, People, Common Sense

  "The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010". www.jewishworldreview.com. January 29, 2010.

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• Mis juegos de palabras no son triviales. Son cuadriviales

  James Joyce

  Inspiración

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• Los juegos de palabras suelen ser inaceptables para los sentimientos; llegan como una cucharada de helado en medio de un cómodo filete humeante, o como un bocado picante cuando tu paladar esperaba un pudín suave.

  Sara Coleridge

  Ice, Expectations, Smoking

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.145

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• Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

  John Lasseter

  Talking, Jokes, Ifs

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• I do not in fact use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Believe, People

  Interview conducted in advance of Terry Pratchett's National Book Festival appearance in Washington, D.C., www.epicreads.com. September 29, 2007.

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• Dios sabe por qué -no es un juego de palabras-, pero cada vez que escribo una canción, siento la necesidad de tocar el tema de la religión.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Writing, Needs

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• I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mind, Pay, Expenses

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

  Adam Gopnik

  Mind, Essentials, Bugs

  "Get Smart" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

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• Los juegos de palabras son una forma de humor con palabras.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Humor, Form

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• Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

  Oscar Wilde

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• Las coincidencias son juegos de palabras espirituales.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Destiny

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• Por mi parte, creo que no debe suprimirse ninguna especie inocente de ingenio o gracia, y que un buen juego de palabras puede admitirse entre las pequeñas excelencias de una conversación animada.

  James Boswell

  Thinking, May, Innocence

  James Boswell (1807). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolatory correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.403

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• Conocí a Big Pun cuando era un niño. Creo que se sintió atraído por mi inocencia.

  Tony Sunshine

  Boys, Thinking, Innocence

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• En el momento en que acepto que hay una cualidad artística y redentora en los juegos de palabras, tengo la horrible sensación de que me voy a enganchar.

  John Oliver

  Feelings, Quality, Artistic

  "The (Not So Fine) Fine Art of The Pun". Interview with Benjamin Phelan, www.gq.com. August 5, 2011.

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• Obviously I struck gold with Deadwood. No pun intended.

  Jim Beaver

  Oro

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• I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.

  Teddy Thompson

  Country, Song, Clever

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