Quotes About Incongruity

My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.

I love when people wear flowers in their own way, like when I see someone wearing a floral dress with brogues and a jacket. It's incongruous.

Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.

It is hard to find a butterfly in the city environment.

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you're a nice egg but you've got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

The words seemed so ridiculous. Only the flies benefited.

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.

I got ham but I'm not a Hamster

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

This is indeed a funny country. Yesterday, for example, we were in a cafe which is one of the best in Cairo, and there were, at the same time as ourselves, inside, a donkey shitting, and a gentleman who was pissing in a corner. No one finds that odd; no one says anything.

that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them.

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

You put butter in a pocket watch and it's bound to mess up the works even if it is the very best butter.

I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where success was measured by physical feats. He had a brain because his body needed it, rather than the opposite. I didn't understand such people. I didn't know what they wanted, or might do.

The problem with this world is that it doesn't fit. It

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

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Army intelligence said the French owners paid the Viet Cong a million piasters a year in protection money and paid the Saigon government three million piasters a year in taxes. The plantation billed the U.S. government $50 for each tea bush and $250 for each rubber tree damaged by combat operations. Just one more incongruity.

Morning sickness and bank robbery doesn't mix well.

Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.

But that reality was like nothing I'd ever seen before: a reality that didn't seem to fit.

The bottle and the cap don't fit: is the problem with the bottle or the cap?

I've got to confess... I do feel slightly like I've been born in the wrong time.