Silas Weir Mitchell Quotes

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

Silas Weir Mitchell

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• We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Places
  • Shy
  • Sunny

• Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Death
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Space
  • Acting
  • Places

• I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Important
  • Person
  • Luck

• I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Great
  • Country
  • Friends

• In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Judge
  • Humor

• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • You
  • Places
  • Toilet

• Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Humor
  • Hilarious
  • Event

• Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Work
  • Important
  • Fun

• I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • God
  • Humor

• With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Trying
  • Crazy
  • Humor

• Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • China
  • Places
  • Oil

• I tend to like dry humor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Like
  • Humor
  • Dry

• Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Good
  • Serious

• I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Choose
  • Shopping
  • Places

• Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Humor

• It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Together
  • Violence
  • Humor

• Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Places
  • Ticket To Ride
  • Ash-tray

• The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Work
  • Way
  • Reminding yourself

• First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Successful
  • Christmas
  • Luck

• It takes a tough, stand-up governor to stand up to the president of the United States - speaking out against the president, speaking out against his policies and, more than that, having actual policies that will help expand health care while... Trump is trying to diminish it for Illinois families.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Help

• I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

  

  Silas Weir Mitchell
  • Humor
  • Places
  • Intended