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Quotes About Incongruity

Never go shopping for kiwis in a shoe store.
~ Karen Salmansohn
HUMOR, LIKE METAPHOR, is simply two things placed side by side that don't belong together.
~ Brian Kiteley
Look over there," I said. "Two women fucking a polar bear." "Please," he said. "Don't tell me those things. Not now.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Had he expected me to hump her leg?
~ Ilona Andrews
In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, 'Cut it out.'
~ Steven Wright
he felt as if he were trying to move a glacier with a frozen chicken.
~ Mur Lafferty
Como nos enseña Freud, la mujer desea lo contrario de lo que piensa o declara
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Warring for peace is like screwing for virginity!!
~ Cecelia Ahern
What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous
~ Thomas Bernhard
Our moods meet in the wrong places.
~ Thomas Hardy
You have made me more frustrated than a zombie at a salad bar. Fix it!
~ Gena Showalter
We sing about the North, but live as far south as possible.
~ J. B. McGeachy
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.
~ Samuel Johnson
George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
~ Edmund C. Bentley
You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.
~ Bob Parsons
Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?
~ George Gobel
I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.
~ George Best
Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.
~ Kristin Cashore
Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida, swamped by incongruity and paradox, and I have to start all over again.
~ Susan Orlean
Soft, pretty things don't belong in a dead zone.
~ Susan Vaught
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
~ Ralph Vaughan Williams
My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.
~ Alex O'Loughlin
How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.
~ Marty Rubin
Information is that which defies expectation.
~ Charles Seife