I think that comedy can act like an anesthetic, so you can talk about relatively painful things and have it be palatable.
Quotes about anesthetic (15 Quotes)
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea what popular Turkish music is like.
Egotism is the anesthetic which nature gives us to deaden the pain of being a fool.
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep
We're inching down that path. But to make a sweeping statement that there's no need for coaching anymore wouldn't be accurate. Especially for women with an epidural anesthetic, it may be appropriate.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didnt want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.
The patch is applied in the operating room, directly on the incision. The objective here is to eliminate any potential lapse in pain control from the time local anesthetic wears off to the time the lidocaine patch takes effect.
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
Drivers don't seem to be as concerned with current prices as they would have been in the past. Perhaps it's human nature. Once you've been through root canal without anesthetic, getting a filling doesn't seem nearly as scary as it used to be.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Our contract with Inland expired in June, and both sides started negotiating the new contract in March, ... We had hopes of renewing by June, but had not made much progress by September. Inland was talking to Eastern Maine Medical Center about anesthetic care, and come September, we thought it may be better to concentrate all services at MaineGeneral.