Funny Things Quotes - Page 4

• It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Running, Giving, Firsts

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

  James M. Barrie

  Stars, Silly, Sleep

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

  Harper Lee

  Proud, Be Proud, Picks

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a bit of information that might make sense of something else, it taps you on the head and says, "Remember when you told me to put that memory in the green rubbish bin? Well, I didn't, I put it in the black recycling tub, and it's coming your way again.

  Melina Marchetta

  Memories, Believe, Black

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• Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

  Lev Grossman

  Self Esteem, Giving, Feels

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.369, Penguin

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• I know, baby. I feel the same way about you. Those words never convey what goes through my mind and heart every time I look up and see you sitting in my house. Funny thing is, I always thought my house was full and that there was nothing missing in my life. I had a job I loved. Family who loved me. Good friends to keep me sane. Everything a human could want. And then I met an infuriating, impossible man who added the one thing I didn’t know wasn’t there.” – Tory “Dirty socks on the floor?” – Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Jobs, Dirty

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• Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Hurt, Games

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

  Dean Koontz

  Storm, Good Things, Made

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• That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

  Abraham Verghese

  Thank You, Blessed, Angel

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• Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Grief, Rest Of Your Life, Walks

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “September”, p.98, Macmillan

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• It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

  Kate Morton

  Character, People, Age

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Hero, Coward, Fighter

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2011.

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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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• Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Destiny

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.224, Hachette UK

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• He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a window. But the funny thing was, once you welcomed in a breeze, there was no stopping what came next. A wind, a storm, thunder and lightning, until you could no longer reach the window to close it—and didn’t really want to anyway. That’s what this new darkness was. Evil in its purest form... -Paris

  Gena Showalter

  Wind, Paris, Evil

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.31, HQN Books

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• Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.

  Francine Pascal

  Want, Awful, Easier

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay.

  Kami Garcia

  Giving, Ironic, Kind

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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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• When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.

  Jenny Downham

  Want, Stuff, Saws

  Jenny Downham (2010). “You Against Me”, p.337, Random House

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• That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Knowing, Desperate

  "Breaking Dawn". Book by Stephenie Meyer, August 2, 2008.

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• Those lips had curved into a knowing half smile that did funny things to her insides. And like a match tossed to gasoline, her body sparked alive and flames licked every inch of her.

  J. Lynn

  Flames, Knowing, Lips

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• A comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny.

  Ed Wynn

  Comedian, Comic

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• I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, there never was anything he could say, that's the funny thing. It was all the stupid, desperately optimistic, condescending things he didn't say that kept me alive; all the compassion and wamrth I felt from him that could not have been said; all the intelligence, competence, and time he put into it; and his granite belief that mine was a life worth living.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Stupid, Optimistic, Feel Better

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Oct 12, 2012

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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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