Quotes About Things That Make You Go Hmmm

#1. He'd told her how orphaned birds would sometimes accept the most pathetic substitutes for their mothers - a pullover, a hot-water bottle, an armpit, or even a paper airplane - anything rather than nothing, but preferably something that moved.

Julia Gregson

#2. Why you in a dark hole, Astrid? Did you fall? (Simi) We're hiding Simi. (Astrid) Hiding? From what? (Simi) Thanatos. (Astrid) Pfft. Why you hiding from that loser? He wouldn't even make good barbecue. Barely take the edge off my peckishness. Hmmm ... How come there's no food here? (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more than once, anything you see happening to you that you see happening to a friend, you go, Hmmm, that's a situation I can make funny.

Chris Rock

#4. In times of great chaos, people tend to follow a man with a plan.

Jeffrey Fry

#5. Hmmm ... that's interesting."
"What?"
"There seems to be a gentleman walking towards us with a shotgun.

Derek Landy

#6. You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose.

Douglas Adams

#7. Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent ... and have a grateful heart!

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#8. Listen to this, Sunny," she said, when her sister opened her eyes. "'Once a subject has been hypnotized, a simple hmmm word will make him or her perform whatever hmmm acts any hmmm wants hmmmed.'"
"Hmmm?" Sunny asked.
"Those are the words I don't know" Violet explained.

Lemony Snicket

#9. Sabina." Vinca said interrupting my maudlin thoughts.
"Hmmm ... "
She rolled her eyes. "I said, don't you think Adam looks nice tonight."
I shook myself. "I guess so," I said with a shrug.
"Oh, stop," he said. "You're going to make me blush.

Jaye Wells

#10. We're victims of our own refined tastes.

Brent Weeks

#11. Out there, in no man's territory, there is no law as you know.
Therefore you should create your own laws and enforce them.
If not, prepare to be hunted or ... subject to the laws of strangers.

Toba Beta

#12. I didn't advocate invasion ... I wasn't asked.

Donald Rumsfeld

#13. She continued, "You know, we never use that word. Aspies. We don't want them thinking it's some sort of club." More negative implications from someone who was presumably paid to assist and encourage.
"Like homosexuality?" I asked.
"Touche," said Julie.

Graeme Simsion

#14. Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

Bert Greene

#15. How do you make a compass? Uhhh hmmm so if I was a compass how would I make myself?

Toby Turner

#16. Congress is the third branch of government ... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.

Wesley Pruden

#17. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.

Sten Nadolny