#stress

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny. ↗

— Julie Brown

#elementary #elementary school #funny #funny people #i

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#both #distressing #frequency #idols #lastly

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#detail #doubtful #far #great #lay

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. ↗

— William Gaddis

#distressing #front #his #more #nothing

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#blood #distress #her #kill #someone

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. ↗

— William Wycherley

#finding #mistress #new #next #old

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. ↗

— Hans Selye

#adopting #convert #into #negative #positive

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. ↗

— Oskar Werner

#films #i #married #mistress #theater

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress. ↗

— Oskar Werner

#films #i #i am #married #mistress

Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin’ the dollar finds nothin’ but stress. ↗

— Mac Miller

#stress #death