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Quotes About Laughable

the prophet's calling, though laudable, is laughable. More, the prophet's intensity makes him look ridiculous. Is there any person more pathetic than the prophet proclaiming what everybody knows will never happen?
~ Marc H. Ellis
I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.
~ Romesh Gunesekera
Triumph was laughable and terrible and his.
~ Samuel R. Delany
There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.
~ David Beckham
When 'Rent: Live' was announced, I bugged everybody. The creatives, Fox, the producers, my team - I have to be Mark Cohen. It almost got to a laughable point for me. I was like, 'I have to be Mark Cohen.'
~ Jordan Fisher
the pretensions of anarchism in its individualist variants have always been laughable
~ Guy Debord
No, no, you have none of you any idea. This is all nonsense, fantasy, it is not like this. Nothing so blood-curdling and becreepered and crude - not so ... so laughable. The truth is quite other, and altogether more terrible.
~ Susan Hill
Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
Trump is a travelling freak show, and bound to say or do something laughably stupid wherever he goes, so, because he's president, he's news.
~ Neil Macdonald
I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.
~ Chelsea Handler
If not so tragic, it would be laughable. Both sides os blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see that they were all fighting for the same thing- for the men to leave this island. Insanity!
~ Brom
My ideas are laughable. I am a pompous clown. I can, on occasion, become aware of this. There are moments of clarity that I find all the more humiliating because I can see myself as others likely do, but I cannot control any of it.
~ Charlie Kaufman
I am the typical British aspiring working class. To be called 'elite' by people who have inherited wealth and run hedge funds or worked in the City of London, I don't criticise them for it, but the idea is frankly laughable. Just ridiculous.
~ Gavin Esler
For these women, Hamas's view of women was laughable. And since they couldn't hear the appeal of such views themselves, they were deaf to the appeal they held for their students.
~ Geraldine Brooks
The idea that somehow you're going to tax the 'rich' enough to pay for quality health care for every American who doesn't have it, can't afford it or stands to lose it, not to mention for all of the undocumented aliens who receive it for free now and presumably will continue to in Obama health land, is almost laughable.
~ Susan Estrich
He's poodlishly ridiculous.
~ Walter Kaufmann
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
~ Charles Kennedy
The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't.
~ Stephen Hunter
What is so often laughable, in the stories of Kundera's Czechoslovakia, is how grimly serious just about everything turns out to be, jokes and games and pleasure included; what's laughable is how terribly little there is to laugh at with any joy.
~ Philip Roth
Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely uninteresting.
~ David Levithan
That`s silly
~ John Barker
You know, in the Soviet Union they used to have a tradition of ordering scientists to change their studies to conform with the ideology then acceptable to the state. And scientists in the rest of the world found that laughable as well as tragic.
~ Nathaniel Rich