Quotes About Incongruity

was sweating like a fat Eskimo at the equator.

I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.

You right," Hawk said. "Couldn't happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress." "Exactly," I said. "Impossible.

I asked, looking at the jukebox, now totally out of place, like a British police call box on the deck of the Titanic.

The sad rocking chair in the corner was actually a joke of a chair: if one started laughing at it, one could die laughing. It was too low for a grown man, and besides, it was so tight, one needed a shoehorn to get back out of it. In short, this room was simply not furnished in a way appropriate to intellectual effort, and I did not intend to keep it any longer.

Everything is different and nothing is same in the universe."

Leslie's leathers and dirty hair would be chic in a biker bar but in the glittery galleria she looked as seemly as a dead toenail in a pair of strappy sandals.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

When hopes are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which hollows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.  

Il arrive que la vie manque de tact, et qu'elle déploie ses incongruités au mauvais moment, quand nous n'avons aucune envie de sourire.

Mislove manages the neat trick of having two meanings that are almost opposite each other. While this is not an uncommon phenomenon (for example, left can refer to both having departed and remaining), words in this category are usually significantly more boring than mislove. Monodynamic

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.

A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

I don't know if it's just me, but I hate going to arenas where it's 60 degrees outside, and it's 50 degrees inside.

I'm never gonna get it, but I always wanted a tattoo that says: 'This is my tattoo.'

Anne tried to picture Mrs. Skinner on speaking terms with romance and failed.

Snow in April is an abomination.

Perhaps the god who had made the Cat People intended them as a joke. They had schools, but no education; politicians but no government; people, but no personal integrity; faces, but no concept of face. One had to admit that their god had gone a little too far with his little joke.

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

There is nothing more awkward to look at, said Joejoe, than peasants in suits. They don't fit into them.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Die Kunst kommt sich vor wie eine Porzellantasse im Elefantenkäfig.