#absurd

If I had four fingers growing out of my forehead, I wouldn't try to play the piano with my nose. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#music #piano #music

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#cannot #civilization #much #palpable #people

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#anyone #audience #becomes #chooses #collaborator

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#along #am #being #best #communicate

I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#any #believe #employees #fearful #get

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. ↗

— David Byrne

#bear #cannot #everything #get #help

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#absurdity #apparent #because #begun #carefully

It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#accepted #amongst #bring #describe #device

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#acutely #awfulness #character #conceive #earnestly

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#absurd #away #banging #find #getting