Quotes About Incongruity

I'm not supposed to be here, Xy.

We may not understand the reason for it; indeed, we often cannot figure it out. Still, an incongruity is a symptom of an opportunity to innovate.

There are several kinds of incongruity: – An incongruity between the economic realities of an industry (or of a public-service area); – An incongruity between the reality of an industry (or of a public-service area) and the assumptions about it; – An incongruity between the efforts of an industry (or a public-service area) and the values and expectations of its customers; – An internal incongruity within the rhythm or the logic of a process.

Behind the incongruity between actual and perceived reality, there always lies an element of intellectual arrogance, of intellectual rigour and dogmatism. 'It is I, not they, who know what poor people can afford', the Japanese industrialist in effect asserted. 'People behave according to economic rationality, as every good Marxist knows,' as Khrushchev implied. This explains why the incongruity is so easily exploited by innovators: they are left alone and undisturbed.

Don't go to the hardware store for milk.

One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light.

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get.

Beautiful… as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.

I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.

Nothing like the tour to show people how poorly they fit together.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.

not only do the edges not fit, they're not even from the same damn puzzle.

A sense of wrongness prickles as if a burr has somehow gotten under her skull.

the house looked shoddy in comparison with its neighbors. It stood out in the elegant street of terraced houses like a meatball in caviar.

incongruous that he laughed. And then realized that there

At times it seems to me that the distance between my writing and her reading is unbridgeable, that whatever I write bears the stamp of artifice and incongruity; if what I am writing were to appear on the polished surface of the page she is reading, it would rasp like a fingernail on a pane, and she would fling the book away with horror.

To love Christ is to deal with the incongruity of One who is hailed as the Lion of Judah but who appears as a slain Lamb.

Miss Small was the opposite of her name. It was like a fat guy was named Mr. Thin or a dumb guy was named Mr. Smart or a really handsome guy was named Mr. Ugly or…well, you get the idea.