I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
It is absurd to suggest a president whose party controls the Senate should jointly decline to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd. — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Conservatives still attack feminism with the absurd notion that it makes its adherents less attractive to men; in truth, it is feminism… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“For a beverage, you asked for some “cherry-assed Kool Aid.” Okay, now you’re just adding “assed” in places where it doesn’t even… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy,… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?',… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“Now, he thought, since all these most easily perishing things have slipped from me again, now I'm standing here under the sun… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One cricket said to another - come, let us be ridiculous, and say love! love love love love love let us be… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How are we going to know what sounds are important before we've even heard those sounds? It's an absurd question. The only… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical… — Heinrich Rohrer Copy Share Image
China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that people fail to appreciate about the social justice movement where it interfaces with the academy is that… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
There’s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being… — Jennie Runk Copy Share Image
The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
