#absurd

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #absurd




When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.


Mark E. Hyman


#affect #based #because #candidate #comes

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.


Thomas Mann


#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

To you, I'm an atheist. To God, I'm the loyal opposition.


Woody Allen


#atheism #humor #humor

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?


Terry Pratchett


#humor #interrogation #police #humor

[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. "Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. "Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.


Jeannette Walls


#family #glass-castle #jeannette-walls #family

If love had feathers and tasted like dog food, then I suggest you wear shoes with your banana pudding. (This statement also defines my political beliefs).


Jarod Kintz


#beliefs #funny #love #political #politics

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.


Rudolf Arnheim


#concept #consequences #evident #examines #information

Which half do you want me to cut in half, Mr. Halfofhalf?
 The name’s Onequarter. Johnny Onequarter. And don’t you forget it.


Jarod Kintz


#bizarre #funny-dialogue #surreal #funny

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.


Jennifer Beals


#does #husband #many #me #romantic

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.


Daniel Berrigan


#agree #most #theatre #would