Famous Quotes & Sayings

Historically, they've demonstrated a shocking lack of humor for people in such an absurd industry.

I think it's going to be a difficult year. We're undergoing a change. I think the markets will broaden and some tech stocks will suffer. In my opinion, they've reached a point of absurd valuation. These stocks are going to give up the ghost with money going into other stocks.

It is absurd to think that such an interest rate could kill growth.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?

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

Max Beerbohm

There is always something rather absurd about the past

It is so absurd what this alleged victim is saying. He's saying that he fought two guys with a stun gun and a knife, and he jumps out of the car.

Ron Allen

I think it was absurd and the court thankfully reversed itself.

Fidel Castro

If it weren't for that absurd and ridiculous embargo, the United States could receive vaccinations and other medical procedures from Cuba that could help save American lives.

Peter Sarsgaard

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

Christopher Morley

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it

Adam McKay

I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

Joss Whedon

I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

Fans are put in the unnecessary position of going to the black market because of the absurd way that FIFA runs the whole thing. FIFA just wanted to start getting its revenues months before the tournament.

Samuel Pepys

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

Fidel Castro

Why is it that criminal policies and absurd blockades that include food and medicines are being added ... with the purpose of annihilating whole populations out of hunger and diseases?

James Blake

To be in the quarterfinals is pretty unexpected for most people. But I didn't feel like it was that absurd to think that I could be here, and hopefully even further.

James Blake

To be in the quarterfinals is pretty unexpected for most people, ... But I didn't feel like it was that absurd to think that I could be here, and hopefully even further.

This report is absurd and is devoid of any logic.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it

T. J. Miller

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

people are funny because they're absurd in situations where they don't know they're absurd.

Sam Mendes

People are capable of good and bad. As long as we continue perpetrating these absurd two-dimensional stories that everything is black and white - you're either good or bad - then the longer we'll misunderstand how many interesting stories you can tell in the space that exists between the two.

Germaine Greer

I think these things are so political you can't trust them at all. It's madness that I am on the list. It's absurd and completely unjustifiable. Their problem was they had to put an Australian on it. These lists are always so right-wing. It's like the Nobel prize, it is always 'people we can do business with'.

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,

I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!

People of sense will not take its absurd triviality as anything but helpful in contributing to the proof of the survival of personal identity.

Tommy Caldwell

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

Junichiro Koizumi

Some people called postal privatization an absurd idea. But the people judged that it is the right idea,

Look at all the people we had on IR. That's an absurd amount. That's got to be some kind of NFL record.