Rachel Caine Quotes

I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.

I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue. And it is far better than them not looking at you at all. Nothing is worse than not being seen.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

You can make fun of everything.

I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Posturing is funny to me.

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

I'm the easiest person to make fun of.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don't even rhyme with T.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.