It is absurd to suggest a president whose party controls the Senate should jointly decline to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“So, in conclusion, that is the moral of Heidi. 'Always push invalid chairs off the top of mountains when you get the… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God;… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It was moving, but so absurd that I nearly laughed out loud. I imagined a new line of Hallmark cards: "Thank you… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
“TEACHER Let us begin. Repeat after me. I would like -- STUDENT I wud like -- TEACHER To feed your fingertips --… — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“For a beverage, you asked for some “cherry-assed Kool Aid.” Okay, now you’re just adding “assed” in places where it doesn’t even… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical… — Heinrich Rohrer Copy Share Image
I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How are we going to know what sounds are important before we've even heard those sounds? It's an absurd question. The only… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One cricket said to another - come, let us be ridiculous, and say love! love love love love love let us be… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Conservatives still attack feminism with the absurd notion that it makes its adherents less attractive to men; in truth, it is feminism… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy,… — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
