Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

Elfriede Jelinek

was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.

Prakash Javadekar

This report is absurd and is devoid of any logic.

Fidel Castro

Why is it that criminal policies and absurd blockades that include food and medicines are being added ... with the purpose of annihilating whole populations out of hunger and diseases?

James Blake

To be in the quarterfinals is pretty unexpected for most people. But I didn't feel like it was that absurd to think that I could be here, and hopefully even further.

James Blake

To be in the quarterfinals is pretty unexpected for most people, ... But I didn't feel like it was that absurd to think that I could be here, and hopefully even further.

Joel Denney

One after the other there's been enough things hitting that it continues to push them closer to the edge. They just cannot stand a whole lot more.

John Ortberg

I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls. But you cannot have an impactful life with an impoverished soul.

Kofi Annan

Tragic experience has taught us that we cannot wait until the last minute to help,

Steve Bruce

We were in it up until the second half when we gave the penalty away. At this level you cannot make elementary mistakes like that.

Margaret Chan

While we cannot predict when or if the H5N1 virus might spark a pandemic, we cannot ignore the warning signs, ... For the first time in human history, we have a chance to prepare ourselves for a pandemic before it arrives.

Michael Eisner

While we cannot determine or predict the timing of a return to normalcy, we are focused on those factors we can manage?continued output of quality creative content, like Monsters, Inc .

John Horne

While we cannot control market conditions, we can control how we respond, and we can continue to take costs out of our operations and manage our production schedules so that we will be a stronger company when the market turns up,

William Cohen

While we are not and cannot become the world's policeman, neither can we become a prisoner of world events, isolated and tucked safely away in a continental cocoon.

Jim Cullinan

While there obviously will be future Windows products, we cannot confirm specifics at this time. There are future products in development.

Margaret Cho

I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they'd laugh.

Margaret Cho

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Margaret Atwood

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

ASAP Rocky

I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!

Rachael Ray

You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do.

Rachel Caine

Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.

Molly Shannon

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

Miranda Cosgrove

I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

Mike Judge

I've seen a lot of pairs of guys that have been hanging out together way too long-until they're laughing all the time.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Jay Wright

The timing of this is incredible. I know it looks like we really planned this well.

Clarke Peters

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Aldous Huxley

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

Doug Stanhope

AA makes Scientology look credible,

Christopher Paolini

Do I look dead to you?!

Alice Sebold

You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.

Robert Henri

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

Talib Kweli

I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Helen Keller

I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

Isaac Newton

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Jeremy Jackson

The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone.

George Bernard Shaw

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

Jon Daniels

By the nature of his injury, it's going to be tough to get him stretched out as a starter.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Henry David Thoreau

The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as the soil is not exhausted. Alas for human culture! little is to be expected of a nation, when the vegetable mould is exhausted, and it is compelled to make manure of the bones of its fathers. There the poet sustains himself merely by his own superfluous fat, and the philosopher comes down on his marrow-bones.