As handbags get ever more absurdly large, so they need to carry more stuff to validate the expense of this huge trunk with chains, buckles and padlocks on.
A. A. Gill
The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
Aasif Mandvi
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.
Adam Clarke
At its heart, 'South Park' has a touching faith in human beings: that despite their absurdities and flaws, people have the capacity to create a better world.
Adam Curtis
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik
I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.
Adam McKay
It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.
Adam West
Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'
Life is full of ironies and absurdities.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai Stevenson I
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Agnes Repplier
I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it's absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies.
Alain de Botton
I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.
Alan Stern
Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.
Alan Tudyk
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
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?
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
Nothing is off-limits. There's just some things I cannot crack. Politics I can't do. When I start to talk about it, I just get really angry and super sincere. I have never found a way to craft all of that absurdity into funny.
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.
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
I agree that it's absurd to call a category of music 'female-fronted metal,' because if you look at Otep or Epica or Arch Enemy, we don't sound anything alike.
There is a lot going on with negotiations in the football business, and I appreciate some people think that it's a crazy, absurd amount of money.
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.
Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.
