Absurdly Quotes

The whole thing seems absurdly easy - so easy that you ought to smell a rat. — Phillip E. Johnson

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

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world. — Aleister Crowley

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. — Tina Brown

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is. — Glenn Greenwald

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

There's something absurdly comforting about the notion that we live in a universe of infinite possibilities. — Aaron Starmer

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple. — Agatha Christie

Absurdly, dead fish by the hundreds were washing ashore, their peaceful world disrupted by man's squabble. — Max Allan Collins

Absurdly simple, like most riddles when you see the answer. — J.R.R. Tolkien

None talk more absurdly than murmurers. — Matthew Henry

She gave him a smile. It felt absurdly nice to be taken care of. Maybe that was what she needed, even if she didn't need it very often. — E.K. Johnston

Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood. — Sathya Sai Baba

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. — Bill Bryson

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. — Andy Hobsbawm

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

To acknowledge the absurdly surreal is the clarity to embrace life as it is, not as we desire it- what you do with this information, hell if I know — Josh Stern

Lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid. — Bill Vaughan

Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots. — Natalie Angier

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

All the players looked absurdly inept, as though they were expressly drafted to be humiliated, entrepreneurs in the industry of losing. — Aleksandar Hemon

I was very shy as a girl. Absurdly shy, even. Maybe because I was an only child. And I think that's why I'm so happy to have two kids now. — Monica Bellucci

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

For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome. — Martin Luther

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

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. — Julio Cortazar

One life is an absurdly small allowance. — Freya Stark

Jesus promised his disciples three things - that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble. — William Barclay

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. — Lewis Mumford

Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed. — Charles Medawar

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

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

I have absurdly vivid dreams. — Erin Morgenstern

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. — Ada Leverson

The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of. — Chris Matakas

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. — Lord Byron

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war. — Arundhati Roy

But as I look around me at all the absurdly expensive fuss and clutter, I ask it anyway. How did I get here? — Jeff Lindsay

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself. — Marilyn Ferguson

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. — Oscar Wilde

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high. — Larry Ellison