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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1842 - 1914

Topics

Opinion Belief Own Statement

I've always liked the downtrodden character on different shows. Before 'Parks,' I loved the Toby character on 'The Office.' I do like playing that type of thing.

Character Loved Office Always Like

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.

Progress People Me Say Understand

I don't know why we have this shame about obesity, but it's kind of a good thing that we have this shame about obesity - we shouldn't accept the fact that everyone is obese.

Good Know Kind Why Accept Shame

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

Daughter Grace Friends Write Up Six

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

Attention See Paid Criminal Far Too

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

Baseball Loved Play Always Player

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

Father Mother Morning King Book She

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

God Government Church Separation

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

Work World Fate Will Same 100 Years

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

Father Man Wise Me Wise Man Smiling

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

Lord George Gordon

Power Beard New Shaving Followers

Some people think that Facebook is fantastic; other people are very worried about it.

People Think Some People Facebook

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