Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life… — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have… — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish --… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“If the Baudelaire orphans had been stalks of celery, they would not have been small children in great distress, and if they… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is when we stop trying to understand or interrogate apparently 'absurd' phenomena - like the category of the 'new' in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“I'm still trying to wrap my head around the absurdity of the fact that the day before she was here, and now,… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now… — Plato Copy Share Image
I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that,… — Porochista Khakpour 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
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
