Calvin Trillin Quotes

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time.

I don't find I'm manic at all. I'm very chill.

I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. So I'll say, 'Gimme five!' If a boy wants a handshake, I'll just give him a hug.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

I'm not always a smiley kind of guy.

There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.

As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy.

I'm a pretty positive person, so a bad mood is quite a big deal.

I am very jovial. I don't like to be serious.

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

I always felt people who took themselves seriously were kind of boring.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

Everyone is just so serious right now, especially in fashion.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

You can meet people who are really beautiful. Then, when you see them angry for the first time, all of a sudden they're not beautiful anymore. They didn't just step into the other room and have plastic surgery; they're still the same physically. It's just that something inside of them has changed. They're no longer attractive.