We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest. Meg Cabot attentionbrotherfamily Change image and share on social
It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it. Karl Lagerfeld bigclothefunny share on social
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny. Jenny Eclair backberlinengland Change image and share on social
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. Imelda Marcos pairshoesixty Change image and share on social
What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.' Barry Humphries charactercompletelyedna share on social
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one. Sam Shepard actorapplefunny Change image and share on social
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. Mary Douglas chillcompetefunny Change image and share on social
There are precedents for what happens when societies allow the divide between rich and poor to get so huge that it stops being funny and starts becoming a sick, blood-boiling joke. If you had a Tardis, you could go back to 1917 and ask the Russian royal family how it was all going. John Niven backbloodboil share on social
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. Josh Billings imaginationlotmemory Change image and share on social
It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory. Hanya Yanagihara brightcentercentury share on social