Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Copeland

It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as "industrial action", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as "sleeping together

John Copeland

It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as ""industrial action"", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as ""sleeping together

George Pierce Baker

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.

Stephen Hunter

Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

Kenneth Koch

Here I was in my 20s, and life seemed to me so exciting and full of girls and gardens and steamships and drinks and tennis games and countries and cathedrals... I mean, it seemed absurd to be writing these drab, depressed little poems. I knew there were things like death and poverty and injustice, but they weren't everything.

Tom O'Neill

Historically, they've demonstrated a shocking lack of humor for people in such an absurd industry.

Guy Quaden

It is absurd to think that such an interest rate could kill growth.

Salman Rushdie

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

Robert Brown

I have written three books on the soul, / Proving absurd all written hitherto, / And putting us to ignorance again.

Ben Shapiro

Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.

Brian Cross

It's been going on here forever. You hope guys ... look at what happened just last year and see where they are. There were guys last year who were good enough to have an opportunity, but didn't get to walk in their freshman year and play. It's something we talk about, but not in a demeaning way.

Marc Chandler

Demeaning is in the eye of the beholder.

Leslie Brown

I don't like holding this sign. It's demeaning and I hate it with all the teas in China.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

Clarence Thomas

the demeaning treatment Anita Hill received before the all-male committee.

Chuck Hillery

Kim was kind of limited with fouls. She hit some big free throws down the stretch.

Ed Pendt

I yelled at (Scheffer) as she was going by to go to the hoop. She went to the hoop, got fouled and made the free throws.

Gary Mills

He didn't shoot a great percentage this year, but he always makes his free throws when the game's on the line.

James Blake

He didn't get many free points on his serve and I was getting some on mine,

Jakob Bohme

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

Carl Forti

Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

Friedrich Muller

His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

Richard McCann

We suspended the meeting, ... Karen called the police to have him removed from the meeting.

Michael Sata

I have got my very own cadres in uniform (police).

Russell Brand

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

William S. Burroughs

I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.

William S. Burroughs

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

Rebekah Brooks

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

Robert Reich

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

W. S. Gilbert

A policeman's lot is not a happy one

Van Jones

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.