You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish --… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have… — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
“The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their… — Colin Jordan Copy Share Image
War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is when we stop trying to understand or interrogate apparently 'absurd' phenomena - like the category of the 'new' in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
“I'm still trying to wrap my head around the absurdity of the fact that the day before she was here, and now,… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that,… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now… — Plato Copy Share Image
To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe… — James Franco Copy Share Image
People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her. "No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids.… — Gore Verbinski 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
When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may… — Mark E. Hyman Copy Share Image
It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell… — Paul Stanley 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
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
