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Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines. -- Claude McKay
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. -- Susan Sontag
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. -- George Eliot
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot. -- Joyce Maynard
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. -- Yehudi Menuhin
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. -- Henry Grunwald
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. -- Jerome Bruner
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions. -- James Payn
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. -- Alfred North Whitehead
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. -- John Dos Passos
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd. -- Roger Stone
The beautiful must be incongruous. -- Julien Torma
People want incongruous, impossible things. -- Kristin Cashore
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous. -- Booth Tarkington
Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too. -- Kristin Cashore
This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. -- Erma Bombeck
I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony. -- W. Somerset Maugham
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love when people wear flowers in their own way, like when I see someone wearing a floral dress with brogues and a jacket. It's incongruous. -- Erdem Moral?oglu
There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?" -- Robert Plant
The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural. -- Stefan Zweig
Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections. -- William Wordsworth
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. -- Jesse Owens
It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful incongruities of existence aren't incongruous at all, but rather perfect. -- Frederick Lenz
I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something. -- Eugene Mirman
...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation. -- William Whewell
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors. -- Ian Fleming
The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels. -- George Washington

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