This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Yes, I know," Isadora said, and then read her poem, leaning forward so Carmelita Spats would not overhear: "I would rather eat… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“For a beverage, you asked for some “cherry-assed Kool Aid.” Okay, now you’re just adding “assed” in places where it doesn’t even… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It’s like being a slave all your life, then… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“I don't let my spaghetti dangle, or twirl it around my fork. I cut it. Of course, my preferred slicing utensil is… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
For years now, the fake European 'left' is trying to portray European citizens as victims of the US imperialism. It is even… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Note to conservatives: sometimes you just have to give up. Do you really care that much about killing lots of bad guys… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Dave? This is John. Your pimp says bring the heroin shipment tonight, or he'll be forced to stick you. meet him where… — David Wong Copy Share Image
America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the… — Sam Watkins Copy Share Image
“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
