The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The argument that keeping Americans overseas is necessary for stopping terrorist attacks is absurd. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
“To be a joke, it was too cruel; But to be true, it was absurd… My mind seemed to have got the… — T.K. Varenko Copy Share Image
There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her. — Claudia Black Copy Share Image
“The absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future. Henceforth this is the reason for my inner freedom.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Punch me." "Don't be absurd." "Come on, punch me, Barrons." "I'm not punching you." "I said, punch--OW!" He decked me. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“It felt possible--though I know this is absurd--that the use of my own body, the only thing I really owned, had somehow… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly,… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm not cross about the idea of baptism; I just think the idea that when a child is born it is inherently… — Hozier Copy Share Image
“The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“BRET She looked like a Parisian river.. JEMAINE What, dirty? BRET She looked like a chocolate eclair.. JEMAINE That's rare. BRET Her… — Flight of the Conchords Copy Share Image
It's a sick thing, right: people are afraid of public speaking. I do public speaking, except my public speaking involves the audience… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
“Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
A lot of the stuff that I want to create personally is usually pretty absurd or silly comedy stuff. — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor. — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The idea that you're supposed to do everything on your own is absurd. You can't. — Natasha Leggero Copy Share Image
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll land on them on your way down” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much. — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay?… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
