Charles Kingsley Quotes

Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.

I was an imaginative kid. My sister needed entertaining, whereas I was the one under the table playing with a bit of fluff on the carpet. I was the sort of child who would spend time rolling up balls of all different kinds of fluff and that would be my little family.

I think that as kids we all picture ourselves as the princess, the prince, and not really ever as the housekeeper or the comical alpaca or llama or what have you - the sidekick. But as an adult, I'm such a huge fan of people who are funny and people who are, in very brief moments, able to do something that you would never think is possible.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.

I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?

The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed.

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

My hair is made of actual fire, you guys.

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.