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
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
There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be… — Carson Kressley Copy Share Image
By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Looking at the room, I can tell that you are the most beautiful girl in the room. (In the whole wide room)… — Flight of the Conchords Copy Share Image
“Being born with a sickly resemblance to Henry Fonda was the first of a long series of practical jokes of which destiny… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Yes, I know," Isadora said, and then read her poem, leaning forward so Carmelita Spats would not overhear: "I would rather eat… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Of all the dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as children when they are giving something. Any small thing… — Margaret Lee Runbeck Copy Share Image
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Half way down, he encountered Saphira, who had jammed her head and neck as far up the stair as she could, gouging… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? BERENGER: Yes, but for a man… — Eugène Ionesco 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 keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what… — Questlove Copy Share Image
cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
There’s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being… — Jennie Runk Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that people fail to appreciate about the social justice movement where it interfaces with the academy is that… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is… — William James Copy Share Image
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, I get compared to people who have no clue how to do anything, but because of some Internet writing,… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people?… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties,… — Louis Jourdan Copy Share Image
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life… — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
