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
“...'Well, I think of you as a straight shooter, Sheriff, but one who can't stop lustin' after the goddamn ineffable.' "She said… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Russia should join the international coalition against Islamic State. It is absurd that we are intervening on the side of the Shiites… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
Getting the police involved or levying an absurd punishment just because that's what some zero-tolerance rule mandates - even though it's clear… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought… — Robert Harris 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
There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . .… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag… — Chavela Vargas Copy Share Image
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to… — Tomi Ungerer Copy Share Image
Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“JEMAINE Lisa? BRET Yes, she's in Delta Force. She's been deployed to Fallujah. JEMAINE But she works in the croissant shop. BRET… — Flight of the Conchords Copy Share Image
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“If I could fly, I would soar all the way up to the window of a plane carrying a suitcase in my… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Favorinus began with an interesting statement that it was “completely foolish and absurd” to think that just because “the tides of the… — Alan Scribner Copy Share Image
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 real news has gotten more surreal and absurd, and my fake news, if you want to call it that, has gotten… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit… — Patricia Piccinini 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
“What an absurd torture for the artist to know that an audience identifies him with a work that, within himself, he has… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
“I call my wife and tell her I’m going to sleep at the lab. She reminds me that she left me a… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies…… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“You need skills to be good at homesteading. You need farming, carpentry, and above all, you need to be able to impersonate… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. "Hold your… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
![“I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a…” quote by Thomas A. Edison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a75/thomas-a-edison-866_absurd_i-told-kruesi-i-was-going-to-record-talk_452681.jpg)
