God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, hes stuck with so many bad actors who dont know how to play funny. – Garrison Keillor
You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. – Garrison Keillor
A lovely thing about Christmas is that its compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. – Garrison Keillor
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that its not jokes that are funny, its characters that are funny. And isnt that true! Thats why I always kill jokes. Im terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I cant get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon. – David Mitchell
Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But hes also funny as hell, and hes so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, hes so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way. – Tom Hiddleston
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. – Peter Agre