It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This… — Alfred Renyi Copy Share Image
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly… — Emile Durkheim 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
“Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled a punk rocker,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob… — Tahl Raz Copy Share Image
true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché… — Paul Banks 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
“I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part , a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
It's a sick thing, right: people are afraid of public speaking. I do public speaking, except my public speaking involves the audience… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
