Funny Redundant Sayings

#1. I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

Philippe Falardeau

#2. At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

Paul McCartney

#4. I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#5. Even though it haunts you it doesn't mean it will catch you.

Me

#6. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

#7. The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid.

Charles Babbage

#8. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Edmund Burke

#9. I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great diarist, a great short story writer, and a great novelist - I'd put novelist last.

John Banville

#10. Don't ask questions - that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys.

J.K. Rowling

#11. That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of stories. It's funny to see people in 10-gallon hats somewhere in France or Switzerland. You think, "Wow, is this real?" You do it in Wyoming and it's redundant.

Thomas Bidegain

#12. I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

Miranda Lambert

#13. The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that fellow humans were created in God's image.

Immaculee Ilibagiza