William H. Gass Quotes

I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.

William H. Gass

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• How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

  

  Barbara Pym
  • Love
  • Should
  • Try

• Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Eat
  • Chickens
  • Fox

• Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Absurd

• There obviously are a hell of a lot of people that love Lady Gaga. But to me, she's been the theatre of the absurd. And the more absurd it is, the bigger she got.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Theatre
  • Absurd
  • Lady Gaga

• The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Past
  • Way
  • Images

• It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Say
  • Manners
  • Mother`s

• I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.

  

  Sadegh Hedayat
  • True
  • Star
  • Sky

• What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Devil

• In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Cool

• While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Women
  • Dog
  • Horse

• It's important for fans to follow only verified accounts of actors. For instance, I am not on Facebook, but I know that many people are running accounts on my name, claiming to be me. Young girls end up liking such dubious pages and get swayed by the activities that happen there.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I'd really like to promote my increasing consumption of bacon.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Consumption

• His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Invention
  • Accounts
  • Fidelity

• Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Youth
  • Maturity
  • Absurd

• Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it's filet mignon.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Special
  • Chickens

• I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.

  

  Virginia Foxx
  • Giving
  • Growth
  • Accounts

• The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Accounts

• What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Desire
  • Labor
  • Consumption

• I trust Angela Merkel, she is a very open person. She is also subject to certain constraints and limitations. But she is honestly trying to settle the crisis, also in the south-east of Ukraine. However, what the European Union is doing with those sanctions is nothing but a theatre of the absurd.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Trying
  • Theatre
  • Absurd

• Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.

  

  Gail Dines
  • Versions
  • Pornography
  • McDonalds

• Expanding traditional energy sources like large-scale hydropower does not mean just accepting what Northern Pass has put on the table, and no one should accept Northern Pass's assertion that the only way for New England to access Canadian hydropower is to trade away the majestic beauty of the White Mountains.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Energy
  • Beauty
  • Mountains

• Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Lie

• I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Accounts
  • Absurd
  • Chickens