I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part,… — Theodor Mommsen Copy Share Image
There may be something universal about idealizing the past, but I think it's taken to an absurd degree in New York, which… — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits… — Plato Copy Share Image
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
. . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations… — David Rabe Copy Share Image
“Robot Boy Mr. an Mrs. Smith had a wonderful life. They were a normal, happy husband and wife. One day they got… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. What I still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. That… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial.… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
I don't know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It's… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm totally changed. I've been emancipated from all this Republican dogma. Whether it's being anti-immigration, being-anti gay, being militaristic and wanting to… — Thomas Ravenel Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
[on being attacked in a parking lot] While I was being pounded to pieces, I was just thinking, 'Hell...oh, this is just… — Johnny Rotten Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image