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They're ironic statements on the absurdity of our fears.


Paola Antonelli

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PAOLA ANTONELLI Beauty and usefulness alone were not enough to justify inclusion in this exhibition,
PAOLA ANTONELLI I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'iro...
DAVID LYNCH theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT Whatever it is -- I didn't do it!
STATEMENTS The only way to know if the glass is half empty or half full is to measure it really accurately, lik...
STATEMENTS Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drin...
DEAN KOONTZ Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the ...
C. JOYBELL C. I thought it was kind of ironic that we went right past Hampton University on our way to the game.
LONNIE BLOW Splits generally are positive for stocks if theyre done at the right time. The timing on this one lo...
IAN WITTERS Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
KARL LAGERFELD Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absur...
ALBERT CAMUS I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped t...
LAUREN OLIVER It is an absurdity on a moral point of view.
BRUNO PAILLARD The only ironic thing about that song is that it's called 'Ironic' and it is written by a woman who ...
ED BYRNE That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which ar...
JOSEPH BUTLER You are playing on fears that run contrary to our interests,
GERHARD SCHROEDER Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.
THEODOR ADORNO Often there's a secret courage hidden in the pocket of our deepest fears saying, “Bring it on, mot...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
CRISS JAMI Most everybody needs clothes. Theyre going to need clothing--jeans, T-shirts, socks, the whole thing...
CAROL JONES Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON Our fears always outnumber our dangers
LATIN PROVERB Our statements about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein were based on the aggregation of intelligenc...
STEPHEN HADLEY The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
ELLEN GOODMAN He has made a number of statements to police, but the (Huntley) hearing will be about the statements...
BROOKS BAKER Our very hopes belied our fears, / Our fears our hopes belied - / We thought her dying when she slep...
THOMAS HOOD The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
STENDHAL The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears
STENDHAL The thing i hate most about rock and roll is the tie dyed tshirts, unless theyre died with blood and...
KURT COBAIN It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
ROLLO MAY Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to t...
JACK CANFIELD ‘’ It’s ironic that we’ve become slaves in what’s called ‘’ Free World’’, slaves o...
RADI ALBALAWNEH The team's decision to put on slicks at the first stop was a colossal absurdity,
JARNO TRULLI The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our...
HELEN MIRREN Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
UNKNOWN The burden of proof is on the defendant to show that the statements were true.
HOWARD WASSERMAN The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
DAVID LYNCH Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
THOMAS HOBBES Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by ...
S N SHRIVER It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect...
PERCY JOHNSTON There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH 61 died that day in the 1st infantry..in Vietnam.. two? rows of body bags.. the fruit of war...dryi...
SAIOM SHRIVER Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
SAMUEL JOHNSON From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
NAPOLEON An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarre...
JOSEPH ADDISON In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or ...
NIETZSCHE Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
PIERCE A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.
TERRY GILLIAM The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.
THOMAS HOBBES Monotheism is a gift from the gods.
FIRE CAT Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO The rain in the Ukraine falls mainly not on the plains.
O ANNA NIEMUS Tom Delay did bugs exterminate before he did kid soldiers terminate. Kissinger's Bremer has not been...
O ANNA NIEMUS Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Why do blacks identify with the Christian religion of their oppressors? Source: Diane Rehm Show gues...
MAHATMA GANDHI Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not b...
ALBERT CAMUS He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and wa...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Our worst fears came true.
BARRY GUIDRY That confirms our worst fears
BRENT SADLER Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the f...
MARK LAWRENCE ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a...
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"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER The results of the financial review and restatement process demonstrate our commitment to the integr...
MICHAEL ROTH Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
TANYA HUFF I just love the absurdity of doing something like this.
ERIC WHITE Unfortunately, as our lawsuit shows today, those statements are patently false.
ANTHONY D. ROMERO Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
RUDYARD KIPLING I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are s...
JIM GALLAGHER It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way
ROLLO MAY He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Absurdity refutes itself
BARTHOLINI Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
UNKNOWN IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hidi...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Queen Paola and I will never forget the ties that have grown between the people and us during the co...
ALBERT II OF BELGIUM You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead ...
MARCO RUBIO This is kind of an exercise in absurdity.
GREG MELLO How Ironic that those of us with our heads in the clouds would turn out to be the ones who were payi...
RAIN BOJANGLES I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.
LISA GARDNER Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
LES BROWN The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
DAVID LYNCH The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity
JOHN ADAMS Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very e...
LILY COLLINS I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY He looks like the good boy he's never been.
HOLLY BLACK But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than any...
JONATHAN FRANZEN I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Don't dwell on your fears, focus on the now
HENRY MACK our worst fears are coming true twice.
JULIE WILSON What's ironic is that when we found ourselves coming together on these rescues, none of us knew the ...
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