#absurd

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#blowing #dining #eating #experienced #fine

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. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#because #create #cutting #economy #fall

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#believe #comedy #doing #drama #just

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#absurdity #deeper #experience #in other words #meaning

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? ↗

— Albert Claude

#also #behavior #bringing #cells #come

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#becomes #conclude #futile #norm #people

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#audience #because #comedy #enjoy #everyman

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#belief #inconsistent #manifestly #opinion #own

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#alive #childish #cowardice #discover #easy

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd. ↗

— Brad Bird

#both #centrist #definitely #feel #i