Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

Elfriede Jelinek

was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.

Baruch Spinoza

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity

Peter Sarsgaard

I get so happy to see someone like Jodie descend into absurdity and be human.

Anne Lamott

When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.

Robert Lantos

It is a sad testament of the absurdity of the ratings code and the completely illogical moral criteria that provide the underpinning for it, where any form of violence is perfectly acceptable for kids but sexuality continues to be the ultimate taboo,

Michael Hastings

Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.

Robert Teeter

The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.

Marco Brambilla

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

Herb Perone

Life insurance was created to be an instant estate in the event of the premature death of the breadwinner.

Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Bill Bixby

Luck has created much of what I have today, but at the same time, I haven't sat still.

Mark Mahaney

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares. Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

Mark Mahaney

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares, ... Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

Jeff Greene

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.

Guru Nanak

Let him exert himself to the utmost in order to increase his property in a righteous manner, and let him zealously give food to all created beings.

Richard P. Feynman

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

Dirk Bauermann

Man, he really took over that fourth quarter. His energy was tremendous. That helped us to the win.

Viktor Khristenko

Major projects lead to a variety of reactions in the beginning, but once they are launched the reactions become positive. Infrastructure is a key part of energy security.

R. Robinson

Luckily, we grossly underestimated the money and energy required to refurbish the home and surroundings. With more wisdom, we might have passed!

Danny Grieves

Luther plays with so much energy and he's tenacious on his rebounding. Luther's not a great leaper, but he's a quick leaper.

Helene Lagerberg

Love is like the sun: has its inner energy source that shines on you

Dan Colen

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

Jorge Zamacona

Lee has exploded. He's exactly the energy the ensemble needed.

Sathya Baba

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Jim Talent

Missouri is going to be better off because we've kept these jobs in Missouri.

Walt Fennell

One of our jobs is to be a greeter. As a resident, I like that too.

Roger Williams

One of my major jobs as secretary of state is to get people to vote, and I'm going to do my job.

O. J. Simpson

No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed.

Jay Shows

One thousand-plus jobs within a 40-mile radius represents a major labor provider.

Ray Giacoletti

Money is the crux of our business. People take jobs because of money. Money ruins everyone.

Roger Schagrin

Numerous plants will be shut down, thousands of workers will lose their jobs and communities will be devastated.

Dito Montiel

When I had jobs, I was always doing manual jobs because I couldn't think. I worked at the docks, unloading trucks, and did ridiculous jobs.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Chris Eigeman

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Ha-Joon Chang

I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

Dolly Wells

Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

Golan Levin

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Gary Peters

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.

Mike Adras

Obviously, that would have energized our guys. It's a play that I know energizes Ruben, and it did just the opposite to him. That was a big momentum-changer in the first half.

Chris Crutcher

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Dean Ornish

I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

Earl Nightingale

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

Earl Nightingale

Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

David Bowie

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

Iris Apfel

I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.

Source Unknown

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

Robert Shea

Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.

Steve Shields

We need to have a paradigm shift. What we've been doing hasn't been working.

Bo Burnham

The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation - or whatever - that didn't really exist. So I didn't even know that that was a thing.

John Green

You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.

Karl Albrecht

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

Stephen Malkmus

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

Thomas Kuhn

To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.

Morgan Freeman

We know its a very clean-burning fuel. It's renewable ... all we need to do is make it available.

Al Gore

The will to act is a renewable resource.

P. J. O'Rourke

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

George William Norris

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Billy Beane

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

Fred Jones

We're trying to keep it in smaller modules.

David Hallberg

Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.

Gopal Ahluwalia

It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle.

Russ Swartz

It's nothing that we're not used to all year. We're one of the smaller teams in the league.

Daniel Craig

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.