Funny Things Quotes - Page 14

• It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

  Tom Petty

  People, Way, Rock N Roll

  "Tom Petty Is Pissed". Rolling Stone interview, October 23, 2002.

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• I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

  Michael Franti

  Basketball, School, College

  "POP MUSIC : A 'News Junkie' and His Rap : 10 QUESTIONS : MICHAEL FRANTI : Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. August 23, 1992.

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• My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

  Herbie Hancock

  Mother, Father, Math

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• I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

  David Sedaris

  Funny, Animal, Thinking

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• Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

  Patricia Heaton

  Country, Political, Different

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• And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

  Molly Ivins

  Disorder, Optimist

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• The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.

  Malin Akerman

  Tattoo, Husband, Boys

  "Malin Akerman Talks ROCK OF AGES, the Stalled Linda Lovelace Movie, and Playing Debbie Harry in CBGB". Press day, collider.com. June 16, 2012.

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• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Funny, Artist, People

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• I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Dance, Mad

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

  Michael Caine

  Funny, Stupid, Silly

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• God has a sense of humor though and he must see funny things in us. He must also have some love. We're still here and there are still great things that go on. There are great doctors who discover how to separate twins and how to put together a human being to walk again after it's said he won't. Those are all there as signs.

  Bill Cosby

  Doctors, Together, Here And There

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Funny thing happens, [Melania Trump] gets so unfairly - the things they say, I have known her for a long time, she was a very successful person, a very successful model. She did really well.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Long, Trump

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I was a teenager and all these shows were on I was in that business, so I knew a lot of people in the theaters and I saw many of the great shows many times. I would go in and stand in the back - they would let me in, they knew me. I saw Fiddler on the Roof, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy, and Funny Girl many times just standing in the back.

  Christopher Walken

  Girl, Teenager, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

  John Darnielle

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Within the framework of something very dramatic, funny things happen. Organically, from them.

  Gloria Calderon Kellett

  Dramatic, Framework, Happens

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Thinking

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

  Todd Barry

  Funny, Character, People

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• The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

  Billy Corgan

  Funny, Heart, People

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• The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

  Jo Brand

  Thinking, Fats

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• The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

  Richard Branson

  People, House, Pay

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So many funny things happen to me everyday I should have a TV show.

  Kurt Braunohler

  Should Have, Tv Shows, Everyday

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• I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Movie, Jesus

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 6, 2011.

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• Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

  Jodi Picoult

  One Day, Looks, Who We Are

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• The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

  James Patterson

  Death, Perspective, Maximum Ride

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion, Bed

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.36, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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