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!

Djuna Barnes

Life is painful, nasty and short . . . in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Mike Pence

makes a powerful case that Congress should reconsider before we create this massive new government entitlement.

Robert Hamilton

Make no mistake, John Casey feels that it is a horrible thing to have to lay people off. And hopefully our worst fears will not be realized.

Sandy Amass

Let's say I'm in Carroll County and I needed a backhoe. I could select backhoe, then click, and the database gives me a list of people in Carroll County who've volunteered their backhoes in case of an emergency.

Mo Shaoping

Many lawyers who handled criminal cases have ended up in prison.

Robert Snyder

Many New Yorkers, rightly or wrongly, feel that the union's case is not as strong as it might be because they don't have very good pensions themselves. It's not something like the safety issue or the conductor issue or the token clerk issue, where the union has significant common ground with the transit riding public.

James Diamond

Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case.

Ken Dulaney

Settlement of the case remains the most likely outcome.

James Awad

Sell in May' very well may be the case this year,

Rachel Swirsky

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

William Blake

I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me.

Bill Singer

What always frightens people is personal exposure, ... Nothing hits home like pricking yourself with a needle and signing with blood.

Robin S. Sharma

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.

Ted Johnson

What frightens me is not the price of gas but the availability of gas, ... It just worries me.

Shannon Edge

She always opens it up to questions, comments, suggestions.

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.

Stephen Frears

When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Dee Brown

When we come out and he plays aggressive, that opens it up for other players. When he plays like that, the sky's the limit.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Peter Bart

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Mike Mason

We welcome that. Then it opens things up for our other talented receivers.

Steve Cohn

Until he opens up, there's nothing we can do.

David Oliver

Even if he doesn't get open, he opens something else up,

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

Elbert Hubbard

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

Edward Abbey

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Deepak Chopra

An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.

David Nicholls

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place

Suranne Jones

She worked in one as a secretary when she was 21 or 22,

Ryan Scolpini

She's pitched every time we've played. There will be no secrets there. They'll know she'll pitch.

Jason Schmidt

I don't know what the big secret is.

Blake Lively

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Lou Mazzucchelli

There could be all sorts of other stuff, too.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

John Hurt

I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'

April Pearson

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

Sven Eriksson

No one is untouchable, it would be unfair to say that.

Andy Jones

Yes. As a non-smoker, I think it's very unfair that smokers go off and have a break, when I just can't.

Hillary Clinton

We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages.

Dean Ryan

It is unfair for him and us that he comes in on a one-off.

Mike Keenan

They were put in a position, in my opinion, that was unfair to them,

Chris Rock

Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.

Neil Gaiman

It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

Jon Kyl

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

John O'Hara

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive....