Funny Things Quotes - Page 7

• Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Moving, Home, Years

  J. Maarten Troost (2006). “Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu”, p.229, Broadway Books

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• The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

  John Green

  Writing, Dancing, Ballet

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• Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  World, Ends, Coming To An End

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, People, Magic

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• The love is so powerful that both people have to surrender. I think that's the funny thing about dating somebody for the first time, it's kind of a question of who wears the pants, or who's gonna text you first, how much am I supposed to put myself out there, and it makes you feel a little bit crazy. But at the end of the day, it's not about that. And if it's the right person you don't have to worry about that.

  Zella Day

  Powerful, Crazy, Love Is

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's under water, and that's dirt too. It's dirt makes the grass grow. A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. And God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt. That right?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Blessed, Thinking, Water

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.

  Tove Jansson

  Block, Spring, Rocks

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• I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

  Leslie Nielsen

  Brother, Father, Two

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• I want you to say dreadfully mad, funny things and make up songs and be--' The Will I fell in love with, she almost said. "And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella." *** "You would make a very ugly woman." "I would not. I would be stunning." Tessa laughed. “There,” she said. “There is Will. Isn’t that better? Don’t you think so?” “I don’t know,” Will said, eyeing her. “I’m afraid to answer that. I’ve heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Thinking, Mad

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• In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

  Will Rogers

  Half, Whispering, Scandal

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The funny thing about GPS was it didn’t always send you in the right direction. I knew that if I took a right and took Twelfth instead, I’d get there faster, so I turned right. Ozzy did not approve. “Wut the foock?

  Darynda Jones

  Gps, Faster, Ifs

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.107, Macmillan

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• Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.

  Tad Williams

  Men, Thinking, Dying

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.98, Penguin

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• Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Determination, Want, Accepting

  The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)

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• I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't. That wasn't the metric of success I wanted in my life. I've talked about this to my friends who are doctors and whose parents are doctors, or who are lawyers and their parents are lawyers. It's a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mother, Daughter, Believe

  "Chelsea Clinton Says She Doesn't 'Care About' Money" by Hunter Walker, www.businessinsider.com. June 23, 2014.

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• Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it.

  Les Dawson

  Tunnels, Wife, Digging

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• There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Music, People, Video

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• Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.

  Hans Ree

  Games, Play, Chess

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• I have crushes on celebrities or people I meet or see in the coffee shop, and every day I fall in love with three people simply because they said one funny thing or appeared to me in a certain way.

  Mindy Kaling

  Crush, Falling In Love, Coffee

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• A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.

  Buster Keaton

  Comedian, Doe

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

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• But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.

  Jaime King

  Kung Fu, Broke, Stairs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

  Ronny Cox

  Song, Long, Stories

  "Senator On the Rise". The GateWorld Interview, www.gateworld.net. September 15, 2003.

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• About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.

  Alan Thicke

  Heart, Kids, Anecdotes

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• The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises [...] the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.

  Buster Keaton

  Dad, Fall, Cat

  Interview in "The Detroit News", December 4, 1914.

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• Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Monsters, Treats

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.

  Holly Black

  Hard Times, Ideas, Accusing Me

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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