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!

Charlie Korsmo

Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

Raven Goodwin

Making a transition to the adult acting industry was pretty smooth for me, and I had a great balance and a great opportunity not to do just children shows.

Dwight Davis

Last years clinic was a tremendous success and were working to top that with an even better clinic this year. Ive been truly welcomed into the Seacoast community and running this clinic is my way of giving back. I have a full slate of youth and adult volunteers lined up and were looking forward to a fun day of basketball with our participants.

Treavor Peterson

Less than nine months after emerging on the national business information/publishing scene, we are proud to be able to bring a totally new and comprehensive resource to industry professionals serving adults and senior citizens. The National Directory of Adult & Senior Services is chock-full of listings and contact information for government and non-governmental organizations and agencies that exist solely to help and serve the needs of adult and senior patrons.

Andrew White

Many of the residents of adult housing sold their houses that they've lived in for so many years because they find it exhausting and expensive to maintain a large and empty household.

Gov. Carcieri

Many Rhode Islanders have raised concerns regarding a proposed $5.8 million reduction in adult day services for people with developmental disabilities. I have heard those concerns and I am announcing today that I will not pursue this specific budget reduction.

Jennifer Armintrout

Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.

John Ashcroft

Mr. Walker is an adult who made very serious decisions against the United States ... , ... No other individual has a right to impose an attorney on him or to choose an attorney for him.

Eliot Spitzer

Movies are an important part of popular culture. Every adult and child should be able to enjoy a film with family and friends, especially during the holiday season.

Alexandra Adornetto

Molly: So how do you think of Bryce Hamilton crowd so far? Boys hot enough for you? Bethany: I wouldn't say hot. Most of them seem to have a normal body temperature.

Rick Perlstein

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

Malorie Blackman

I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

Mark Hummel

Man, I didn't want to see it when we're up 21-nothing. But, we got something done when it counted. We've obviously got to correct a lot of mistakes, but the boys feel good about winning right now.

Doug Pederson

Man, I always felt like high school football was where I needed to be. Having three boys helps that decision. Here at Calvary, I know I can have them in school with me and coach them when they're older. It's one of the reasons I came to Calvary. Stan is the same way. He's got daughters there.

Nick Swisher

Let's get those left-field bleacher boys ready to go. I had a great time in right last year, but left field is where it's always been.

Gerry Fleming

Second place is on the line here, boys!

Abdul Aziz

Security forces opened unprovoked fire on boys who were playing cricket in a field.

Cate Blanchett

Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.

Israel Horovitz

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

Richard P. Feynman

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

Gil Kleiman

We're not clear that there's any connection (to Tuesday's attacks). We know there's an intent by the terrorist organizations to carry out terrorist bombings and terrorist attacks.

Christiane Amanpour

Let's see what they're carrying first, ... It's just water.

Jesse Ventura

Let's remember that very often, if you were to have someone with a legitimate conceal and carry weapon, you can stop crimes like this from happening.

Kenny Jackett

Leon doesn't feel he can carry on the way he is. He's an explosive player and he needs that to be at his most effective.

Mark James

Loren is one of those guys who got a little longer as they grow older. Which makes him more of a threat. So I know he's going to carry on. I am very impressed.

Brad Saindon

Last year they were freshmen and sometimes they played like freshmen. Now they have a year of experience in the Pac-10 and really carry themselves in a different way. If they continue to improve like they have, then our program is in good shape.

Dennis Prager

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

Camille Paglia

before feminism was, Paglia was!

Camille Paglia

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Caitlin Moran

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

Dennis Miller

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

Bella Abzug

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

bell hooks

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

bell hooks

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Pat Wilders

Many of these girls treat their prom like they would treat their weddings.

John Hodgman

Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don't understand it.

Kevin Knight

Several of the girls can play several positions. It's nice to have some options.

Joanie Ewing

(Moffat) played really well. They are usually at about 290. Rifle had two girls in the low 90s.

Danny Starkey

Mountain View's a great team. I'm proud of our girls because they never quit again. This tournament was a good test for them for next season.

George Beck

McCoy is one of the older girls and more experienced. She's a good, strong, powerful hitter and makes good contact. We're glad to have her. She's the only real power we have on the team. Everyone else is singles hitters.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses

Bob LeCours

My job is to get these girls to states. These totals are a little short where we need to be. How we do at (Belleview) will be important.

Brenda Clark

One point, it's hard to believe. I'm still happy with the way we performed. We had a lot of girls place in the top three.

Michael Franti

With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

Imelda May

I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.

Frank Ogden

We don't want him acclimated to people. In order to survive they've got to keep hating people.

Kristin Cast

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

Albert Schweitzer

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Sathya Baba

Life is, Loving - Listening - Lifting - Learning - Living

Cyril Connolly

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk

Kevin Jones

Let this be a learning lesson. Let?s pick up the pieces. Hopefully, other teens will not make the same mistake.

Mark Anderson

(Madeline's) a raw talent. She had never run anything over an 800 (meter). She'll learn more by training with Jaclyn and Caitlin.

Jim Newberry

Lexington needs to stay a place where people want to live, learn and raise a family.

Pat Summitt

Losing the way we lost is unacceptable in this program. We will learn from it.

Scottish Proverb

Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.