Quotes about Absurd

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd. To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend... I suppose I ought to have realize it's ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship. I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman." It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in America. It's absurd. There is no evidence. I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change. We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb. The performances are so utterly absurd regarding the 'post-truth' moment that the proper response might best be ridicule. Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd. Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd. In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege. The notion that Americans can be protected from \'terror\' by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists. I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd. 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. I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering. 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. Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better! I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd. 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. But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour. The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it. All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd... Of course it's going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air. Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it? The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years. And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion. Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work. This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature. I like things to be a little bit absurd. But I don't really like playing covers. I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach.