Relief Mechanism Quotes

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell.

I like songs that you can have both the physical release and an emotional release.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world.

When the music hits you, you feel no pain.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he's merely relieving himself of his pressure.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.

It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.

We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic.

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.