Funny Things Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

  Liev Schreiber

  Writing, Thinking, Persons

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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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• Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

  Tom Ford

  Pride, Names

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. June 1, 2011.

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 about faith ... it goes a lot faster than it comes.

  Rob Thurman

  Faith, Have Faith, Faster

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.33, Penguin

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• It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

  Jonathan Demme

  Want, Documentary Films, Documentaries

  "I'm Carolyn Parker: Filmmaker Interview with Jonathan Demme". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Stopping, Miscellaneous

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, thats what you expect to gain.

  Jimmy Reed

  Baby, Love Is, Thinking

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• It's a funny thing, in the US we all believe that we have a right to go to school. We have a right to a good education. And we don't. The U.S. Constitution contains no right for a child to go to school, let alone for a child to go to a good school. And yet, we know that if they don't go to a good school, they're less likely to be able to realize all that this country has to offer.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Country, Children, Believe

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm originally from Tampa and grew up on beach. I'm also naturally fair-skinned. The funny thing is, my parents are both pretty tan, but for some reason I didn't get those genes.

  Brittany Snow

  Beach, Parent, Tampa

  "The Genius Way Brittany Snow Gets Tan Without Going in the Sun (and No, Not With Self-Tanner)". Interview with Julianne Carell, www.glamour.com. June 8, 2016.

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• When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Two, People, Groups

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

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• The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

  Ron Finley

  Environmental, Sustainability

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• Sometimes I'll hear a certain approach that kinda cathes my ear, like „It's kinda cool what that guy's doing there", or maybe an effect that somebody's using, or a guitar sound, or something that kinda makes me open up. But the funny thing is i realise over time how sort of traditional i am.

  John Petrucci

  Guitar, Guy, Sound

  Source: www.rockbook.hu

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• Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.

  Simon Le Bon

  Ambition, Screw You, Careful

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• South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

  Ron Finley

  Motivation, Inspiration, Home

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