#absurd

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd. ↗

— Arthur Holly Compton

#absurd #attitude #feeling #first #paper

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#always #england #i #leave #ready

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#best #lovers #make #most #people

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. ↗

— Vartan Gregorian

#behalf #fragments #humanity #keep #libraries

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#book #dear #i #idea #never

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#breath #completely #i #mention #name

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. ↗

— Junius

#believe #confirms #determined #doctrine #faith

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. ↗

— Willem de Kooning

#artist #attitude #chaotic #hope #i

Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drink, he had better lay in a couple thousand tablets of viagra. The drug would probably remain potent if he vacuum packed the pills in groups of 10 and kept them in a freezer. That would work unless civilization completely collapsed and power companies were unable to function. Fortunately, Jim had a propane-powered backup generator with half a dozen tanks of fuel already on hand. If Henry added to the propane supply, and he used the generator only for essential maintenance like keeping the viagra freezer operating in warm weather, he would be happy here on the farm for a looong, looong time. Unless, even now, dead Jim was out there in the generator shed sabotaging the machinery. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#end-of-the-world #male-thinking #paranoia #food

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#because #blessing #characters #collapses #constraints