Circumstances Quote by Lorrie Moore Download Open image “A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.” — Lorrie Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Circumstances Funny Humor Lines Mood Needs
If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene. — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line. — Hannes Holm Copy Share Image
If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to. — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's… — Kathy Baker Copy Share Image
Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Once you even acknowledge that there is a line, that there are things you shouldn’t be allowed to joke about, that there are words… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
You can give a guy a funny line, but you can't make him say it funny. — Brad Garrett Copy Share Image
“As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of laughter lines. You don't get laughter lines on your face without having a lot of fun in your life. — Deborah Meaden Copy Share Image
“How's your humor? What can you do to have more humorous lines to use in the right place at the right time? I highly… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
It's impossible to know who Donald might have been under different circumstances and with different parents. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Being positive helps you to keep away negative thoughts. And helps you to stand in adverse circumstances with the hope that in the end… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity. — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image