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Quotes About Ridiculous

That is horse poop bingo." "What?
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don't dance. So you might as well dance.
~ Gertrude Stein
Anyhow,' one of the scientists was saying to another, 'there simply isn't room in the museum's Fishes Hall , so we've decided to pretend to the public that a whale is actually a mammal without any legs. It's patently ridiculous - I mean to say, just look at the thing, it's a gigantic fish if ever you saw one - but mum's the word! In my experience the public will believe just about anything, so long as you write it down on a little piece of card.
~ Gideon Defoe
When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating your entire workforce because you don't know how to manage performance. It makes a bad situation that much worse.
~ Travis Bradberry
I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
~ Adam Garcia
I mean, when we did 'Families At War,' on Saturday night prime time, people said we were mainstream then. But it wasn't in the least mainstream. The fact that we got that on BBC1 at that time with those ridiculous things, that's as mainstream as we get. We do what we do and people can think that it's mainstream or avant-garde.
~ Vic Reeves
If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.
~ Carmen Electra
The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim. Amazing, obviously. She's been my idol since I re-enacted 'Titanic' and fell in love with Leo. And it's a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
~ Florence Pugh
Oh, I am ridiculous. She smiled. Absurd.
~ Sarah Blake
I can be very loud, when I'm being stupid.
~ Scott Lynch
What a stupid, reckless, idiotic, ridiculous damn thing to do! I haven't the words to express my admiration.
~ Scott Lynch
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Jury paused. "This is a onetime offer. It won't come again. Choose." Melrose prepared to laugh like hell, but managed only a bark. "Onetime offer? You mean if I don't take you up on either of these jobs here and now, you'l I never ask me again?" "That is correct." "Is this the most ridiculous conversation we've ever had?" "No, we've had more ridiculous.
~ Martha Grimes
Consider the fiddlesticks!
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like paté de foie gras.
~ Arthur Koestler
It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
If we turn from contemplating the world as a whole, and, in particular, the generations of men as they live their little hour of mock-existence and then are swept away in rapid succession; if we turn from this, and look at life in its small details, as presented, say, in a comedy, how ridiculous it all seems!
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by.
~ Ayn Rand
A few months since the idea of witches riding through the air upon a broomstick, and that of philosophers upon a bag of smoke, would have appeared equally impossible and ridiculous
~ Stacy Schiff
A sedici anni siete giovani e ridicoli, dopo sarete solo ridicoli
~ Stefano Benni
Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that's what life is like, that's what interests me.
~ Joss Whedon
Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Forever My Love
Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Don't be ridiculous! Mystic arts be damned, a dog with machine guns is always problematic.
~ Jonathan Hickman