Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ruffalo

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Lleyton Hewitt

Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.

Paul Epworth

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.

Paul Auster

In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do learn to cope with it. The funny thing is, as you begin to inhabit larger places, it's very interesting how quickly you adapt to your space. What seems enormous at first becomes natural after a few weeks.

Lauren Miller

That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

Jaime King

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

Chris Messina

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

Jeremy Northam

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

Glen Hansard

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

Jon Foreman

Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.

Lois Lowry

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

Gustav Mahler

It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.

Ellen Hopkins

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

Francois Truffaut

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.

Peg Bracken

When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.

Maureen Johnson

The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.

Jonathan Demme

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.

Pauly Shore

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

Pete Seeger

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

Rutger Hauer

The funny thing is most people don't approach me because they are scared, and that's fine, I want to keep it that way. But the thing is if you're not scared or get over it you learn that sometimes what you're scared of is really what you shouldn't be scared of.

Sam Shepard

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

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

Les Dawson

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.

Tom Petty

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

Richard Branson

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

Keith David

What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.

Karl Lagerfeld

I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.

Kami Garcia

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.

Paul Krugman

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

Patrick Chan

Experience is a funny thing. You dont always have it when you need it.

Patty Duke

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

Ray Stevens

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.