Quotes About Incongruity

To get recognized in New York is weird because that's definitely a place you shouldn't be recognized.

Harmony is boring.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.

Body and soul can never be married I need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell

Q: When do you stop at green and go at red? A: When you're eating a watermelon.

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.... All laughter then is occasioned by a paradox.... This, briefly stated, is the true explanation of the ludicrous.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

what he has found is a stubborn, overwhelming, and embarrassing degree of inconsistency in what we do.

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

I always thought there would be ice in hell

like a party hat at a funeral.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

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.

The seventh Earl of Sidcup is a sore for sighted eyes. It's as if evolution took a wrong turn, got stuck in a cul-de-sac, and just threw in the sponge.

She was salted in the ladies' room?

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.

What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.

This just bleeds with irony.

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

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