[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.” — Francis M. Nevins Jr Copy Share Image
It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real… — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of transition was… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
I've always found it very difficult to understand the laws as far as nudity in America - how some things are pornographic… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please… — Oscar Wilde 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
Boxing always was corrupt and always will be corrupt. The three world champion's belts really are absurd. One single association would make… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
“The theater of the absurd represented a contrast to realistic theater. Its aim was to show the lack of meaning in life… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country's welfare, lest it should perish by… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Treat me like a king and I'll treat you like a queen…..Treat me like a queen and off with your head” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller,… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt. — Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden Copy Share Image
“What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in America. It's absurd. There is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd. — John Cage Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image