The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
[The huge success of Curse of the Black Pearl] made perfect sense to me on the one hand, and at the same… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd. — Frank Lautenberg 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
Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be… — Venetian Snares Copy Share Image
“I don't understand models. They starve to stay thin so that they can feed themselves..” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden,… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Giving government aid to a bank basically transforms it into a utility. The huge salaries in this sector are only a symptom… — George Soros Copy Share Image
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable. — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them… — Erlend Loe Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children.' This was… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image