#absurd

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #absurd




In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.


George P. Baker


#best #character #ending #enough #farce

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.


Jason Bateman


#audience #because #comedy #enjoy #everyman

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.


Ambrose Bierce


#belief #inconsistent #manifestly #opinion #own

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.


Heston Blumenthal


#blowing #dining #eating #experienced #fine

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.


Sidney Blumenthal


#because #create #cutting #economy #fall

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.


Jenna Elfman


#believe #comedy #doing #drama #just

What more proof do you need to illustrate how America is the land of the free than the fact that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world?



Jarod Kintz


#freedom #freedom

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti


#absurdity #audience #climbs #constantly #death

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


Claire Forlani


#always #england #i #leave #ready

Dave? This is John. Your pimp says bring the heroin shipment tonight, or he'll be forced to stick you. meet him where we buried the Korean whore. The one without the goatee." That was code. It meant "Come to my place as soon as you can, it's important.


David Wong


#funny #humor #random #funny