Absurd Mentality Quotes

#1. Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter.

Anita Nair

#3. The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

Edward Sapir

#4. If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.

Rick Warren

#5. We want laws to be applied predictably.

Nancy Gibbs

#6. Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna."
Crys shrugged. "So?"
"So? So what? You want it should sing, too?

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

Tom T. Hall

#8. Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.

Max Planck

#9. I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

Penn Jillette