F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Funny thang 'bout freedom, baby. It seem to have a lot a' extra arms and limbs to grab hold a' thangs. It ain't always the thangs you want to grab holt of either.”
Source: The Hand I Fan With
“Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.”
“FUNNY THAT
I cannot think what is
distinct about my life?
What is not
Is what I’ve got
It’s not like
I’ve run rife.
I’ve mostly left that
To my wife.”
“Funny that the people who aren’t doing the fighting are the most tired of it,” Evan said. “We never knew anything about people being sick of it, or protests, or people thinking we were the bad guys. All our news was censored. We thought everyone would be proud of us, like they are of our dads. We were out there, putting everything on the line every day because that’s what our country told us to do, under conditions that would make a saint afraid to look God in the face, and we were doing our best. I knew there were a few anti-war protests before I left, but I never expected it to be like this…”
Source: Leaving Kent State
“Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.”
“Funny, the four of us sitting here,” Mary said, “even with all of our broken parts, we still fit together. I guess that’s what makes a family.”
Source: The Ascension of Mary
“Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.”
Source: Stay
“Funny, the thing that hooks you. It’s not always the eyes or the wifely parts; sometimes it’s just the curve of a well-made arm against dark oak.”
Source: The Blacktongue Thief
“Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.”
“Funny the way music finds you when you're a kid. It sneaks up on you. It's in the air, in the mood of the room, all around. And then, when it happens in just the right way, it can get under your skin and hang with you for just about forever.”
Source: Blue: The Color of Noise
“Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.”
“Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.”
“Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years, creating personae, wearing them like masks, and then discarding them as soon as they grew too familiar.”
“Funny thing about emotions is that if you don't let them out of your system, they'll suffocate you till the point you give up & break down.”
“Funny thing about faith ... it goes a lot faster than it comes.”
Source: Nightlife
“Funny thing about love, ain’t it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn’t enough.”
Source: Infinite Us
“Funny thing about optimism, if you can become a carrier, it grows more each day and life becomes a little more bearable.”
Source: The Binding
“Funny thing about secrets we try to bury-they tend to exhume themselves, and there's not a shovel, bulldozer, or excavator large enough to redig that hole.”
Source: Free Fall: Life Lessons That Caught Me When the Parachute Didn't
“Funny thing about self, it loves to be enthroned with its own understanding that we often rename God because pride will always lean to its own knowledge instead of trusting God with all our hearts.”
“Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.”
Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
“Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.”
Source: In the Garden of Iden
“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.”
“Funny thing is, the sounds are always the same. Even though different people come and go, the sounds stay the same.”
Source: Nothing to Fear
“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.”
“Funny thing is, we've never really had a stylist. We had this style, and the label that we're signed to loved it. And I actually thought they were gonna hook me up with all kinds of cool clothes. But they were like, "No, no, no! Your leather jacket and your skinny jeans is exactly what you want." Aww, dude. I thought you were gonna hook me up!”
“Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“Funny thing, trust. It was so hard to give, yet easy to rip away”
Source: Disclaim
“Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe.”
Source: Slough House
“Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.”
Source: The Kingdom Of Gods
“Funny thing, every time an angel appeared to someone in the Bible, the first thing he'd say was, "Fear not."... I guess they were pretty spectacular.”
Source: The Angel of Bastogne
“Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart, in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it to feel love. Pain. Jealousy. Guilt. I wonder if it’s the same for people, lost in comas. Is there really such a thing”
Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
“Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.”
“Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.”
“Funny things those, our minds. They are flawed and yet phenomenal. A mixture of beauty and ugliness, complexity and simplicity, good and evil, elegance and mess.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“Funny to do something and then realise the reason for it afterwards.”
Source: Mr. Fox
“Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
“Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.”
“Funny, what a freeing thing right is. And how . . . flexible it is. There is all sorts of right available to me now. Before, when I had to choose between Adam and James, I chose the hardest right path. It almost killed me. For now, I’m choosing the easiest right path.”
Source: Perfect Lies
“Funny what you remember and what you don't.”
Source: Borne
“Funny women are honest women.”
“Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.”
“Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.”
Source: The Tea Rose
“Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.”
“Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?”
“Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.”
“Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.”
Source: False Memory
“Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.”
“Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.”
Source: Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
“Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?”
Source: American Beauty
“Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with.”
Source: The World According to Dave Barry