Absurd Quotes - page 6

It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well. (Stephan Pastis)
God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations. View quote
Brandon Lee
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. View quote
Danny DeVito
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies. View quote
James Surowiecki
I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable. View quote
Joshua Ferris
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd. View quote
Zoltan Istvan
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. View quote
Barbara Pym
As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. "Hold your horses," he said. The he laughed. It seemed absurd to say tat to a horse. View quote
John Flanagan
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. View quote
Alice Foote MacDougall
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it. View quote
Adam Clarke
I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason. (Claire Forlani)
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable. View quote
Carter Burwell
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit! View quote
David Edward Kirk
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters. View quote
David Simon
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook. View quote
Eli Broad
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting. View quote
Lake Bell
The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd. View quote
Leonard Maltin
I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama. View quote
Peter Billingsley
I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it. View quote
Phil Anselmo
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas. View quote
Patrick Stewart
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. (Robert Wyatt)
Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be. View quote
Ray Stevenson
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. View quote
Sidney Blumenthal
In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd. View quote
Simon Greenleaf
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. View quote
Stanley Crouch