Absurd Quotes

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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move… — George Pierce Baker
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions… — David Kirk
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator. — Jeff Tweedy
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. — Jeff Tweedy
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd. — Unknown Author
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy… — Jonathan Shapiro
I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season,… — John Barton
In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact,… — Simon Greenleaf
We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but… — Heston Blumenthal
The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information… — Rudolf Arnheim
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a… — Alice Foote MacDougall
I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd. — Ang Lee
A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money… — Mike Huckabee
Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly… — James Purefoy
We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor. — Dominic Cooper
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all… — David Mamet
Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to physicists. — Leonard Mlodinow
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a… — Eli Broad
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims… — Christopher Morley
One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the… — Niels Bohr

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