“If the Baudelaire orphans had been stalks of celery, they would not have been small children in great distress, and if they… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Life under the Soviet system was often funny, absurd really, especially for children. — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That… — Kristina Schroder 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
How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
"Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me,… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth – that billions of consumers in India & China will one day… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I have no clue what a 'hottie' is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd. — Drew Fuller Copy Share Image
A stronger race will drive out the weaker ones, for the vital urge in its ultimate form will break down the absurd… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd… — Leonard Maltin 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
As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying… — Emmanuel Macron 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
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I hold the biscuits in front of his face and he stands up. "What do I have to do?" he says. "Nothing,"… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
