Quotes About Incongruity

In 'Hope Never Dies', Biden attempts to disguise himself with a beach look, hoping that the incongruity of it will allow him to snoop around Wilmington without being recognized. Obama, on the other hand, knows the best way to keep a low profile is to just be himself.

The one thing I couldn't identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

Golf is the absolute worst place for me to be because I am the exact opposite of everything that a golfer should encompass, should be, and I'm not.

so many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede...

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one. This is especially true, I think, when the apposition is cultural.

Life on earth is a head-scratcher for anyone who's paying attention. This place has been a bad match for me since I was four.

Life on earth is a head-scratcher for anyone who's paying attention. This place has been a bad match for me since I was four.

Death is always incongruous.

Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.' (Danger)

Like a wombat in a cornfield." Jo "Beg pardon?" Cadegan "You're not the only one who can throw together random words that make no sense and use them in a sentence like they do." Jo

What the hell am I doing in Nashville? What – you want me to shoot Minnie Pearl? (Steele)

Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Cortney at times seemed unnerved by Da Costa's general appearance and manner, but most of all by his clothes, which, as always, looked as if they had been made by a good tailor for someone of quite different shape.

When a man tells me that a horse is an armchair, I always tell him to put the brute into his bedroom.

Bloody heads and hearts, never match up, do they?

The minuteness of the human race within the vastness of the universe is not an incongruity because the vastness of the universe is not about the greatness of man but about the greatness of God. Man has his greatness, but it lies in his capacity to know and worship the God who calls the universe "the work of [his] fingers" (Ps. 8:3).

in this society, things you'd think could only be bad jokes actually happen all the time.

an impression of inescapable noise or acute disorder, a rush of adrenalin, sensations of alarm, a sense of unbalance or chaos, residual feeling of nausea and anxiety. These are the forms of bodily distress that occur when one's ingrained, taken-for-granted sense of how certain things are - and thus presumably will be and in some sense should be - is suddenly or insistently confronted by something very much at odds with it.

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.