Stuff Quote by Robert Sheckley Download Open image “The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.” — Robert Sheckley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stuff Time
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity. — Paul Madonna 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 were absurd.… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things to the… — Douglas Huebler Copy Share Image
Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for… — Michael Schultz Copy Share Image
Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function? — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business,… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
“You must realize, Mr. Blaine, that a man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his skills, for… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
“But that's crazy, " George said. "How can I be the Average American Man? I'm only five foot eight and my name is Blaxter… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
“She was an extremely attractive woman if you liked the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish overtones.” — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even.… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I've never even been into those supplements or any of that. I don't even drink energy shakes. I'm not into that kind of stuff.… — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn't come do stuff in America. — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
