Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Baruch Spinoza

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

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.

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.

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.

David Lynch

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

David Lynch

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

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.

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.

T. J. Miller

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

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,

Marshall Herskovitz

The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity.

George Soros

The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids and realized it was a lot better than Scotch, and I loved the Scotch. Then I went to my doctor, and he said, 'I'm thrilled. You're drinking too much. You're much better off doing pot than drinking.'

Anatole France

The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it

Adlai E. Stevenson

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in another

Oliver Goldsmith

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative

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.

Francis Bacon

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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

as an absurdity and an obvious effort to divert attention from the atrocities and other outrageous activities being perpetrated by the regime in Kosovo.

Bob Woodruff

Today, Mr. Bennett told us his comments were meant as hypothetical. He says that he was really trying to demonstrate the limitation of one argument by showing the absurdity of another.

Bernard Levin

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

Charles Cooley

''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

Paola Antonelli

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

Willie Geist

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

If there isn't an element of absurdity in a session, you haven't stretched your client enough.

Jon Stewart

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.

Nicolas Chamfort

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

I just love the absurdity of doing something like this.

Salman Rushdie

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Ralph Ellison

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.