Natasha Lyonne (1979) actress
As quoted in "Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne’s Sweet Comeback" by Shira Levine, in Heeb Magazine (20 January 2009)
Source: True Believer
Natasha Lyonne (1979) actress
As quoted in "Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne’s Sweet Comeback" by Shira Levine, in Heeb Magazine (20 January 2009)
“What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?”
Cole Porter (1891–1964) American composer and songwriter
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" from Wake Up and Dream (1929)
Context: What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve this mystery?
Why should it make a fool of me?
Gianni Sarcone (1962) Italian author, artist, designer, and researcher in visual perception and cognitive psychology
ESOF (2010).
Context: Life, like art, is purposeless and unpredictable. That’s what makes it beautiful and rare! In life, we are given the choice between three paths: utopia, illusion or nonsense. The funny thing is, none of us get the joke.
“Theres one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?”
Nick Lowe (1949) British singer
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" on The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz (1974); the song later became a hit as sung by Elvis Costello. ( Nicke Lowe performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7txCdLCP9U - Elvis Costello & Nick Lowe joint performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWdh7ERLb3E) <br class="br">Context: As I walk through<br>This wicked world<br>Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity,<br>I ask myself<br>Is all hope lost?<br>Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside,<br>Theres one thing I wanna know:<br>What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?
Jonathan Kozol (1936) American activist and educator
Source: Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.”
Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American cartoonist
Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)