I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Post-traumatic stress, that's why the soldiers need marijuana, is for their mental health. It makes them feel better so that they don't… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
“Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
“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
“TYMPANI: Well, things happen fast down here. You gotta' be prepared. One day you're raising chickens, the next day you're buying up… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?” Oh God. She wants to know if I’m clever. I… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I'm looking back at what I did and how it works. In a sense I'm waiting to see how people will respond.… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A… — Arundhati Roy 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
“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 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
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 was thinking of the word Surrealistic . . . I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The… — Eva Fuka Copy Share Image
Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be,… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd. Of course it's going up. It has gone up since… — Reid Bryson Copy Share Image
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
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
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
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
I like "God Give Me the Strength" very much. It's not really a blues and to call it a ballad is absurd.… — Dick Taylor Copy Share Image
Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“TEACHER Next. I am afraid -- STUDENT I em afred -- TEACHER We are out -- STUDENT Wee are out -- TEACHER… — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
