One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
“I'm still trying to wrap my head around the absurdity of the fact that the day before she was here, and now,… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
What I really like is changing a life, helping someone change a business, change a family. In the beginning, it was because… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe… — James Franco Copy Share Image
To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now… — Plato Copy Share Image
I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that,… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have… — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish --… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is when we stop trying to understand or interrogate apparently 'absurd' phenomena - like the category of the 'new' in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
“The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I had $60,000 for my first movie. I was 33 before I made any money off of movies. I worked my ass… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
When you've biked only on quiet cul-de-sacs and college campuses, the idea of riding in the city, right up there alongside the… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The advanced organizations of Thinking must teach with their example by cooperating. Every human organization can cooperate in one or another way… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
