Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Branden

Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

Dominic Cooper

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

Paul Stanley

I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.

Paul Merton

When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.

Todd Gitlin

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

Jonah Hill

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

Nathan Fielder

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

Nicolle Wallace

It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.

Larry Ellison

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Byron Katie

I haven't had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It's somewhat complicated to understand that. I've hardly ever spoken about it. You're in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.

Lord North

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

Nigel Farage

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

Bruce Willis

I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.

Raymond Domenech

We hardly played during the first. We only looked at them playing,

Wang Yuanhong

Therefore, the previous mechanism can hardly mirror the true situation.

David Cox

I pulled him from the car, ... There was some slight resistance. He didn't have hardly anything to say.

Elliott Abrams

In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off.

Dallas Roberts

When you get a job on 'The Walking Dead' you imagine you're going to be running through the woods with a lot of weaponry shouting, 'Look out!'

Don Green

We plan on doing some work to it this year. We're here to see what we can see. There are a lot of possibilities. I imagine a lot of people are planning to spend a lot of their income tax returns on their homes.

Cathy Guisewite

I love comics, and I can't imagine life without them. I love newspaper comics.

Lilla Crawford

I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.

Mike Wallace

I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.

Blake Mycoskie

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.

Tom Grassa

We needed this win. Can you imagine if we lost tonight, then lost to Peabody on Sunday and had a 5-game losing streak going into the tournament?

John Bell

We get some resistance to rentals because Longfellow residents can't imagine who would want to come into this neighborhood to rent,

Joan Ark

You'd never imagine how many people listen to Howard Stern that you'd never expect.

David Pogue

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

Bear Grylls

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Socrates

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Nicolas Chamfort

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

Shane Warne

All Graeme Smith did was say some ridiculous stuff.

Barbara Kingsolver

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Edward Abbey

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Jane Austen

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Eugene Ionesco

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,