Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.

Baruch Spinoza

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Oliver Goldsmith

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative

Joss Whedon

I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

Nicolas Chamfort

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

Kurt Braunohler

I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.

Laurence Sterne

Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Dirceu Ferreira

Neither Beckett, nor Ionesco, not even Arrabal: the biggest responsible for the absurd in entertainment is the guy who calculates the tickets' prices.

T. J. Miller

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Chris Roberson

I'm always amused when people point out that Benjamin's naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.

Jane Smiley

It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.

David Chang

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.

Cokie Roberts

People came through. They all came together, they didn't worry about ratings, the stuff we spend way to much time worrying about. They became a community.

Michael Kazin

Once the majority of Americans became middle class, once their jobs ceased to be manual jobs, then they began to look around and choose to live in a place, in part, because of the weather.

Bayan Jabr

Approximately 18 innocent men who were inside the mosque performing sunset prayers were killed and became martyrs. They were killed unjustly and wrongfully.

Josie Loren

I was a gymnast when I was younger. My parents put me in gymnastics, and I was actually only good at the floor. I was terrible at everything else, especially beam. Unfortunately, you can't be a gymnast unless you're good at all of the apparatuses, so I became a competitive cheerleader. I was just the main tumbler for my squad.

John Henrik Clarke

I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped better than Eisenhower did.

Curtis Martin

When I came into the NFL, it was an escape. It became my way to survive, not just in a financial way.

Samantha Power

When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

Clete Oaks

When I became chief of the life squad, my goal was to build a nice building where we could sleep and get out faster.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

Ron Meyer

Students using vouchers will now be welcomed back into Florida public schools. It decides with finality that the voucher program is unconstitutional.

Lauren Bacall

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

Mike Felix

We know teams are gunning for us. Especially after we swept South Alabama. We're a hot team right now, but we've got to go up there with the mindset that we're going to get a sweep or win the series.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Xedrix-"No, our motto is 'everything tastes better with hot sauce.

Robert Frost

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

Karen Hechler

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

Jeff Long

I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.

Geoffrey Zakarian

I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.

Bobby Bowden

I'm pretty hot right now, because that was a pretty frustrating offensive performance,

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

Jim Dixon

The hotter and sweatier you are, the better it tastes.

Philip Treacy

The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.

Anne Bancroft

So I called her up and said, what are you doing and would you be interested? She was very intrigued and she goes, I think we should do this project.