Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Willig

Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'

Horace

Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

One can hardly imagine a more ridiculous and absurd interpretation.

Dirceu Ferreira

Neither Beckett, nor Ionesco, not even Arrabal: the biggest responsible for the absurd in entertainment is the guy who calculates the tickets' prices.

John Major

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

T. J. Miller

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Kurt Braunohler

I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting.

Kurt Braunohler

I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.

Sorin Cerin

Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish, of absurd and uncertainty, of lack of power and suffering. He will hail the sun and the stars and everything that surrounds him knowing they are all vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities that will give man a meaning! This vanity of vanities will tell the man that he truly dreams his own Illusion of Life, that he finally found the meaning!

Rick Perlstein

One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.

Robert Rainy

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

William Butler Yeats

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves among silence

The Jerusalem

Life in exile, abroad, in a foreign element ... a premonition of your own book-form fate, of being lost on the shelf among those with whom all you have in common is the first letter of your surname.

Tom Daschle

Let us be clear, ... All Americans deserve a tax cut. But surely, the wealthiest among us should not get it at the expense of working families. There's a better way.

Christopher Haiman

Lung cancer incidence was higher among African-Americans and Hawaiians.

Rick Beene

Luke had his best game of the season. To come out in a game as big as this and play the way he did shows what kind of competitor he is. He was a man among boys tonight.

David Ogilvy

Make sure you have a Vice President in charge of Revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

Tom Brokaw

You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss.

Robin Marantz Henig

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.

Irwin Rose

Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.

Kenneth Kamler

When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have any encounters with crocodiles. You should stay away from them!

Tim Feldner

Population reductions are one tool that wildlife biologists have used to try to manage hot spots.

Craig Venter

Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions.

Jonathan Miller

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

Bruce Batt

It all started to occur in the '70s, and by the '90s biologists were noticing some pretty serious damage to the habitat on the breeding colonies at several locations in the Arctic. They were getting together at various conferences and realized that they were seeing the same thing.

Ken Goldberg

Biologists spend a great deal of time observing and recording nature using traditional video equipment. So we're trying to help them bring the latest technology into the field.

Samantha Power

Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

Dick York

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

Rafael Cruz

Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

Mark McKinnon

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.

Rob Morosi

We have the money now, and there's no denying that the roads we're rebuilding need to be done.

Byron Miller

We are denying any involvement in any property acquisitions for such a purpose.

Doug Hamilton

We'll evaluate the staff at the end of the season and make a decision. But there's been no denying I'm not overwhelmed with our record so far.

N. Robert Hammer

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

Chris Jordan

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Harold Varmus

We were overwhelmed by the scientific community's response,

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

Michael Holden

Ski jumping, from the scientific viewpoint, is a wonderful problem.

Marney Cox

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Tom Peters

I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Tom Sizemore

I think I may be in - potentially - three classics. That sounds like I'm bragging.

Simon Travaglia

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.