“This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his… — Preston Sturges Copy Share Image
Real Men no longer drive Corvettes. Despite being able to squander gas with the best of them, even today's least enlightened Real… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
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“I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ,… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
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I hate the tribal hatred thesis - in Yugoslavia and Rwanda and places like that they kill each other because that's just… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
No other show was as absurd as 'Crackerjack'. It had Stu Francis, who was the first person I saw on TV telling… — Paul Sinha Copy Share Image
I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd… — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
“To blame me in the past is a very future me thing to do. But what am I supposed to do, scapegoat… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The picture of the guy pissing on the chair was a picture I had to do. I had the idea of this… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of transition was… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
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We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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