Quotes of: Funny-story Keyword

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

Brian P. Cleary

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

Howie Mandel

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

Salman Rushdie

Kostya Novotny: I pick her out special just for you. Monty Brogan: The last girl you picked out special for me had three teeth, all in the back. Kostya Novotny: Funny you should say that. [laughs] Monty Brogan: Why? Why is it funny I should say that?...

25th Hour

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

It's Kind of a Funny Story

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.

Dennis Lehane

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

Lock and Key

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

Tim Cahill

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

Sophie Marceau

I am a guy," I say. "And I hate boys," she says. "But a guy's different," I say. "Maybe a little," she says.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.

Beverly Cleary

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

James Herriot

Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

John Kricfalusi