“Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.” — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice. — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics. — Kal Penn Copy Share Image
Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
As soon as an American man loves a girl he wants to marry her. This is not only a blunder but it… — Helen Lawrenson Copy Share Image
I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
I think my favourite memory from filming 'Jurassic World' would just be a compilation of me running through the jungle in heels,… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into… — Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal Copy Share Image
I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
“Our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions are being robotized; 'life' is coming to mean feeding apparatuses and being fed by them. In… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from… — Henry Moseley Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid it's not nonsense," Genghis said, shaking his turbaned head and continuing his story. "As I was saying before the little… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I hate the tribal hatred thesis - in Yugoslavia and Rwanda and places like that they kill each other because that's just… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used as a lovely rug, a rug that just so happens to be covering a large hole, you… — Nicole McKay Copy Share Image
People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes. — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting. — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like… — Peter Billingsley Copy Share Image
It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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