Funny Proper Quotes

#1. By and large books are mankind's best invention.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. Pick up a thing," [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

Lita Burke

#3. What is all this talk of elephants and seals?' asked Frog. 'It's nonsense', said the father, 'and yet it's not the child's fault. Our motor is in me. He fills the empty space inside himself with foolish dreams that cannot possibly come true'.

Russell Hoban

#4. You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

Forrest Carter

#5. We are about to be eaten by a dragon, you're crawling on bleeding hands through bat droppings, and you're worried about being proper?

Bethany Wiggins

#6. I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about ... 'Let's Get It Started.'

Will.i.am

#7. Precancer?' she had repeated quietly, for she was a quiet woman. 'Isn't that ... like life?

Lorrie Moore

#8. My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.

Fergus Henderson

#9. I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

Tom Perrotta

#10. There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times.

Dave Abrams

#11. Maybe dying a few times messes with your hormones or something. I kind of like it. His

Lauren Oliver

#12. Wow this place is really big isn't it? They must do proper stuff here, like opera and all that ... shite.

Dylan Moran

#13. I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday, mum!"

Jimmy Carr

#14. If the proper preparations have been made and the necessary precautions taken, any staged event is guaranteed success
Ethelred The Unready

Robert Asprin

#15. I was hoping Tiny might scoop us up and give us a ride. That seemed like the proper thing to do for travelers who'd just had a hit-and-run with your shoestring.

Rick Riordan

#16. That spot was taken," Kara sat up to look at them. Stylized, short, black hair with bangs. Piercing blue eyes. Proper posture. Lean. It was Oliver.

"I don't think a bag counts as a person," he smiled down at her.

Alexis Tiger

#17. He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."
-from "Song of Myself

Walt Whitman

#18. In theory I rather admire the Spaniards for not sharing our Northern time-neurosis; but unfortunately I share it myself.

George Orwell

#19. Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.

Russell Brand

#20. To every dreamer, you direct the light of all the world!

Tamara Henson

#21. She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.

David Foster Wallace

#22. Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.

Elizabeth Berg

#23. Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

#24. There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Paul Goodman

#25. The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#26. Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.

Rajneesh