Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Strauss

Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.

Richard Russo

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Robyn

The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

Thomas Lennon

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

Harper Lee

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

Francine Pascal

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.

Jayne Meadows

I never say a funny thing intentionally.

Molly Ivins

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

Nancy Mitford

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

Julia Sweeney

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

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

Michiel Huisman

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

Michel Gondry

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

Mark Ruffalo

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

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.

Lois Lowry

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

Lewis Black

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.

Ellen Hopkins

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pierre Salinger

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

Nell Freudenberger

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

Jodi Picoult

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

Ken Dodd

Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.

Kristen Stewart

I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.

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.