Funny Things Quotes - Page 5

• That's the funny thing, she thought. You always want things to get better, but you never know how good you already have it.

  Scott Speer

  Get Better, Want, Know How

  Scott Speer (2012). “Immortal City”, p.293, Scholastic UK

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• Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Friends, Kids, Thinking

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• That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it’s not really true. It’s like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Animal, Thinking

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• It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.

  Steven Moffat

  Perfect, Stories, Unexpected

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• I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Mad

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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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• 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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• It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them into odd juxtapositions with other things, as though it wanted to make a design, or get some meaning out of them, whether you want it or not, or even see it.

  Loren Eiseley

  Memories, Design, Brain

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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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• Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

  Ellen Muth

  Funny, Real, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook,chop,braise and blanch. Then it's gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sortof in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.

  Ted Allen

  Thanksgiving, Lying, Home

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• The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake.

  Mel Smith

  Sexy, Snakes, Cities

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

  Ed Wynn

  Comedian, Comic

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