You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.' Is it… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me… — James Frey Copy Share Image
We feel no obligation to follow the news cycle. In other words, I felt no obligation to cover story in anyway, because… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd. — Fernando Pessoa 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
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
I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Ducks like balloons. Think about THAT next time your child has a birthday party and you choose to not invite all of… — Jarod Kintz 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
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by… — Clarence Darrow 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
[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes. — Eric Andre 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
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health,… — Kathleen Turner 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