Funny Things Quotes - Page 15

• Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Thinking, Needs, Natural

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• If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Thinking, Aggravation

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• You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

  Eminem

  Funny, Men, Rapper

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• Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jobs, Believe, Book

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• Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Loss, Important, Details

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Oct 28, 2012

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• They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

  A. A. Milne

  Funny, Winnie The Pooh Inspirational, Winnie The Pooh Book

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.56, Egmont UK

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• A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

  Greg Gutfeld

  People, Agree

  Greg Gutfeld (2012). “The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage”, p.13, Crown Forum

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• But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

  Lena Dunham

  Moving, Ambition, Thinking

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.185, Random House

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• It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.

  Susan Gregg

  Want, Planning, Sometimes

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• Memories are doing funny things to us.

  Milos Forman

  Memories

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• It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Thinking, People, Want

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.340, A&C Black

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• Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.

  Ralph Steadman

  Race, Views, Earth

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

  Barbara Pym

  Home, Cooking, Littles

  Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen

  Nate Silver

  Funny, Data, Judgment

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• Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.

  Zayn Malik

  Thinking, Upside Down, Life Is

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• One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

  Alan Turing

  Morning, One Day, Littles

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• You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Thinking, Long Ago

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.

  Michael Ende

  Country, Book, Adventure

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• When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

  Francois Truffaut

  Funny, Humor, Wonderful

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  ...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Humorous, People

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• What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life.

  Marlene Dumas

  Inspiring, Art, Reality

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• Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

  Alice Hoffman

  Pride, Treasure, Worthless

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.111, Penguin

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• The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

  Ray Stevens

  Brain, Influential, Melody

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• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Life, Way

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.18.

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• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Funny, Real, Estates

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