Ridiculous famous quotes
06-17-2025
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
-- Albert Camus -
Beth: "You're ridiculous." Xavier: "I think you mean irresistible." Beth: "Yes, ridiculously irresistible.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.
-- Alfred de Musset -
I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track
-- Amy Goodman -
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
-- Anais Nin -
You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.
-- Angus Young -
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.
-- Antonio Lobo Antunes -
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.
-- Arthur Koestler -
They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
-- Barry Sheene -
I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.
-- Bear Grylls -
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
-- Beth Ditto -
The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.
-- Bill Frist -
Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market,
-- Bill Gross -
The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.
-- Bill Maher -
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
-- Billy Collins -
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
-- Blaise Pascal -
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!
-- Brandon Sanderson -
What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous.
-- Carey Mulligan -
You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?
-- Cat Deeley -
When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.
-- Catherine Martin -
Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
-- Cato the Elder -
They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.
-- Chael Sonnen -
Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.
-- Charles Ludlam -
I can go right, I can go left, I'm amphibious.
-- Charles Shackleford -
Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg -
I’m a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then you’re stupid.
-- Chelsea Handler -
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
-- China Mieville -
My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue to act ridiculous.
-- Christian Slater -
If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.
-- Christopher Bond -
One cricket said to another - come, let us be ridiculous, and say love! love love love love love let us be absurd, woman, and say hate! hate hate hate hate hate and then let us be angelic and say nothing.
-- Conrad Aiken -
It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
-- Damien Hirst -
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
-- Dana Carvey -
I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!
-- Daniel Craig -
When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.
-- David Chase -
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
-- David Chipperfield -
I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.
-- David Levithan -
That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.
-- David O. Russell -
I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.
-- David Pogue -
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.
-- David Sedaris -
And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.
-- Denis Johnson -
I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word.' 'Then how did you understand that?' 'I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?' 'That's right.' 'You understood that, though.' 'Not at all.' The American glowered.
-- Derek Landy -
If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.
-- Donald Judd -
In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.
-- Donatella Versace -
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
-- Drew Curtis -
I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.
-- Duane G. Carey -
Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
-- Edward Albee -
Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
-- Elmer Bernstein -
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,
-- Eugene Ionesco -
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
-- Eugene Ionesco -
And I love Jennifer Lawrence. She's a total fox. And such a good actress. It's ridiculous.
-- Evan Peters -
the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
-- Fanny Burney -
It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.
-- Frank Carson -
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
-- Galway Kinnell -
Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.
-- Gareth Bale -
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
-- George Santayana -
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
-- Gerald Brenan -
I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.
-- Geri Halliwell -
You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
-- Gertrude Stein -
Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?
-- Gilles Duceppe -
This face. What is it like to wake up to this face?
-- Giuliana Rancic -
Bye, bye! I'm from Colombia! I'm Sofia Vergara!
-- Giuliana Rancic -
Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?
-- Grace Helbig -
What would you like?" "A skinny decaf latte." This is a ridiculous form of coffee, but I did not point it out.
-- Graeme Simsion -
The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.
-- Guglielmo Marconi -
I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious.
-- Gwyneth Paltrow -
We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for it's ridiculous.
-- Helen Thomas -
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
-- Henry Fielding -
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.
-- Henry Fielding -
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
-- Hilaire Belloc -
What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]
-- Horace -
It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.
-- J. Irwin Miller -
I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
-- Jackie Mason -
Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.
-- Jacob Zuma -
A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.
-- Jacob Zuma -
The ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back.
-- Jacob Zuma -
The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.
-- Jacob Zuma -
...The people love him. So how can we condemn him?
-- Jacob Zuma -
The ANC is more important than the Constitution.
-- Jacob Zuma
