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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. -- Ada Leverson
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay. -- Ambrose Bierce
Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and so she chose music that expressed order and healing:Bach for order, Mozart for healing." -- Alexander McCall Smith
I have absurdly vivid dreams. -- Erin Morgenstern
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. -- Andy Hobsbawm
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. -- Julio Cortazar
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. -- Lord Byron
Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high. -- Larry Ellison
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. -- Tina Brown
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen. -- Julia Sweeney
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets. -- David Nicholls
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.' -- Salman Rushdie
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. -- T. E. Lawrence
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? -- Charles de Secondat
I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously. -- Claire Danes
The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made. -- Preston Sturges
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. -- Robert Lanza
God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover. -- John Piper
One life is an absurdly small allowance. -- Freya Stark
Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid. -- Bill Vaughan
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. -- Lewis Mumford
A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world. -- Aleister Crowley
lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss. -- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is. -- Glenn Greenwald
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred -- Tina Brown
Jesus promised his disciples three things"?that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. -- Bill Bryson
The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots. -- Natalie
Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape. -- Deepak Chopra
When people are absurdly tall, they command everyone's attention when they walk into a room. Nobody's ever dismissive of somebody for being too tall. -- Steve Albini
I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country. -- Dan Mangan
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. -- Oscar Wilde
Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do. -- Richard Brookhiser
I wouldn't mind being taller, because when I'm in the company of people who are absurdly tall, there's something about them that I can't help admiring. -- Steve Albini
Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature. -- William Hazlitt
First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy. -- Fitzhugh Dodson
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety. -- Thomas de Quincey
The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes. -- Maria Edgeworth
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind. -- David Hume
They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will. -- John Calvin
my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love. -- Barbara Kingsolver

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