Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Savage Landor

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

Orlando Gibbons

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

Austin O'Malley

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Mahatma Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Salman Rushdie

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

Willie Geist

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

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.

Bernard Levin

No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

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

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.

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.

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Paul Light

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

Viktor Khristenko

Launching the Customs Union to the full will take at least two or three years.

Saint Augustine

Custom is second nature.

Sharon Rainey

I need people to sort and pack ? and we need help filling out customs forms. I had one volunteer, June Fox, come in last week and she wrapped 11 packages in under 25 minutes. That's the type of workers we need.

George Balle

The Lansdowne was selected to ferry the Japanese ministers and generals from the Customs House Dock in Yokohama to the Missouri.

Steve Glynn

You can stuff a painting in a suitcase and find out in the customs line you owe 5 percent duty.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

Li Rongmei

We have to go through all the Customs procedures and paperwork so it is not easy to import one.