Famous Quotes & Sayings

Although the story is absurd and at times somewhat humorous, it produces a hateful image of the institution and it is well known that hateful images like this produce feelings of hatred in those who lack a critical sense.

Liev Schreiber

It's a survivor's sense of humor, maybe even a Jewish sense of humor. Because of the difficulty of life for many Eastern Europeans - the pogroms, the Revolution, the Holocaust - their humor is broad and aggressively and ridiculously comic. It also triggers an emotional response. It's that kind of chaos and absurdity that results in an opening-up to a discovery of deeper emotion.

David Harsanyi

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

I just love the absurdity of doing something like this.

I have written three books on the soul, / Proving absurd all written hitherto, / And putting us to ignorance again.

Graham Nash

I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I thought that that was absurd because, first of all it had gone so fast, I didn't really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long.

I don't know how much Apple pays for that IBM chip, but you can bet it's absurdly low. Apple has this crazy idea that it shouldn't have to pay as much as everyone else. And whatever it's paying for the IBM chip, I'm sure it's paying more for the Intel chip.

Johnny Depp

It was very exciting, ... It's all very new to me, you know? It's an interesting and fascinating process. There's something very pure about it being from the page, into the air, and onto the recording machine. You have that and you combine that with doing scenes where they're going to mesh these voices together, but you're doing a scene with people you've never even met before, which is slightly absurd but kinda great.

It was absurd to place the Taiwan independence movement in a scenario of 'monkey cries on both banks behind my boat',

Richard Hatch

It was absurd in the spring, and it's still absurd,

It's almost absurd to think you can replace the World Series as an economic event. In no way does it put the economy at risk of double-dip recession, but I believe the economy loses.

Leo Tolstoy

It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.

Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.

Team policy is not to comment on trade rumors, no matter how absurd they may be. But they are frustrating and annoying.

It's just like Michael was road kill. It's absurd if they're not allowed to charge him with causing our son's death, because he caused our son's death.

This is absurd and nothing more than the agony of people trying to cling to power. Thousands of people will take to the streets because they cannot be denied a right to choose.

Paola Antonelli

They're ironic statements on the absurdity of our fears.

There's an absurdly picky ski patrol this year. To us this is epic: If you have a job you don't like, you quit.

T. E. Lawrence

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

Oscar Wilde

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately

George Herbert

It's absurd to warme one in his armour.

Jamie Wyeth

Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.

The failure of woman to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it n

Preston Sturges

The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.

It's an excellent life. I'm rich. I'm happy. I have a great job. I travel hither and yon to fabulous places. I'm surrounded by wonderful, interesting people. I live a privileged life -- hugely privileged.... It would be absurd to pretend that it's anything different.

It's an absurd version of the modus operandi.

Stephen Gould

They have this absurd notion that something that occurs in the past and that is not subject to direct observation is not provable. That's nonsense .... There is a mystery as to how evolution occurs, but there is not a whole lot of doubt as to whether it occurs.

Everybody just fled Asia in the second half of last year. People ran from Asia in great droves...A lot of high-quality companies were absurdly oversold.

Bernard Levin

No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Greg Lukianoff

It's absurd to try to police demeaning speech. That's not what a free society does.

Kele Okereke

It's absurd to think a band is something heroic. There is nothing heroic about being a band or making music. Heroic is doing a job that you hate every day in an office to support your family. It's carrying on in the face of that.

It's absurd to think 97 or 100 people participated in a secret conspiracy. This frightens witnesses, freezes them from testifying and opens the case to all sorts of unfair hearsay.

It's absurd to say getting to the Sweet 16 equates to winning a national title. There's no question Duke's record of the past 15 years is impressive, but how many national championships have they won? Three doesn't equal 10.