The picture of the guy pissing on the chair was a picture I had to do. I had the idea of this… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts… — John Updike Copy Share Image
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil.… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I will find you," Ragnor told him. "I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have. And I will bring a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?',… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy,… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Now, he thought, since all these most easily perishing things have slipped from me again, now I'm standing here under the sun… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
There obviously are a hell of a lot of people that love Lady Gaga. But to me, she's been the theatre of… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time.… — Vernon Reid Copy Share Image
Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
“Are you an evolutionist? I’m an absurdist, ma’am. But let’s suppose evolution is true; what about the monkeys today? Why can’t we… — Harrison Wheeler Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not… — Aristotle 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
[on being attacked in a parking lot] While I was being pounded to pieces, I was just thinking, 'Hell...oh, this is just… — Johnny Rotten Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm totally changed. I've been emancipated from all this Republican dogma. Whether it's being anti-immigration, being-anti gay, being militaristic and wanting to… — Thomas Ravenel Copy Share Image
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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