Funny business Quotes

“It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.”

“It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister."Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.”

“No funny business. I’ll scream and dead or not it will hurt your ears”

“Medicine’s a funny business. After all, dispensing chemicals is considered mainstream and diet and nutrition is considered alternative.”

“Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear... from my future Kids' Funny Business.”

“Love is a funny business. It cannot be commanded but it commands us; it commands respect and unselfishness. Love cannot be sucked out of another in the hopes that it fills us up, because love is not a selfish quest.”

“The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here”

“You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious. You know that you are a writer if you are interested in the things and people of the world. You know that you are a writer if you hold a minie ball in your hand and wonder about its story. You know that you are a writer if you like the sound of rain on the roof. And if you want to tell someone else about your heart and how waiting for the thunder sometimes makes you feel, if you work to find the words to do that, then you are a writer. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here”

“Your brain is doing some great work when it's laughing.”