Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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

Nicholas Sparks

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.

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.

Pierre Salinger

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

Kristen Stewart

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

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.

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.

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.

Terry Pratchett

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

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.

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.

Kevin Sorbo

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch 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.

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.

Stanley Tucci

This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.

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.

Rob Thurman

Funny thing about faith ... it goes a lot faster than it comes.

Richard Russo

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

Walter Lord

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

Will Rogers

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.