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Quotes About Ridiculous

The Young Lion. What kind o' name is that?' 'Ridiculous.' Clover held up his hands and fluttered the fingers. 'The Great Wolf! Now that's a name.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.
~ Johann Hari
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
~ Johann von Goethe
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
the ridiculous things you see on American films, from which good Lord deliver us!
~ E. Charles Vivian
Why not?" He jumps to sit on the counter. "Maybe this is a summer of second chances." "Second, sure. But after that it gets ridiculous.
~ E. Lockhart
Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
~ Edgar Allen Poe
In the arts as in the sciences a certain freedom for experimentation is necessary: one must allow a good deal of apparently gratuitous, and even empty or ridiculous work, if one wants to get masterpieces.
~ Edmund Wilson
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
~ Edward Albee
He told an amusing story against himself about an incident on his journey home, a reminder that his thirst for recognition was redeemed by an endearing sense of the ridiculous.
~ Anthony Everitt
My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
~ Grace Slick
Yeah, I would love to play someone really dumb, just really foolish.
~ Karan Soni
Watching someone getting really angry can be very funny - if it doesn't affect you, you can laugh at it, and the sillier the thing he's angry about, the funnier it is.
~ Michael Che
My mamma has a diamond ring which cost forty pounds," she said. "And it is not a big one, either. If there were mines full of diamonds, people would be so rich it would be ridiculous." "Perhaps Sara will be so rich that she will be ridiculous," giggled Jessie. "She's ridiculous without being rich," Lavinia sniffed.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
È ridicolo come ti sei bardato per questo mondo.
~ Franz Kafka
how much harmful ridiculous self-confidence arises while reading old things with an eye to publication.
~ Franz Kafka
As ridiculous as I think the fashion and beauty industry is, I'm wildly obsessed with it.
~ Grace Helbig
I got a lot of influences. I got relevant influences today. I got influences that you wouldn't even think of. I'm very influenced by Marilyn Manson. His style is ridiculous. Like, honestly, if you want me to keep it 100, Marilyn Manson has as much style as Kanye West and Pharrell Williams.
~ Lil Uzi Vert
My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.
~ Ben Foster
There's nothing that winds me up more on Twitter than people who are stupid, and who say the most ridiculous things.
~ Phillip Schofield
The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
~ Malcolm McDowell
'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.
~ Mike Rowe
I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
~ Cameron Winklevoss
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have - and then go around saying: 'Actually, I'd also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?' That would be ridiculous.
~ Sebastian Faulks