Quotes About Ridiculous

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Voltaire, the French philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment era who lived for many years just a few miles away from where I am writing this book, once said: "Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one."74

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.

But there is no way I am going to fuck her out of her celebrity death depression. If she came to me because her mother died, maybe, but this is ridiculous.

But vows seemed ridiculous -- it was hard enough to keep appointments.

Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments. Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities.

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.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because, um, the classics hold up so well.

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

Sudden in a shaft of sunlightEven while the dust movesThere rises the hidden laughterOf children in the foliageQuick now, here, now, always—Ridiculous the waste sad timeStretching before and after.

I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

There's just nothing funnier or crazier than that - doing your Broadway debut as Spider-Man in 'Spider-Man' the musical. It was, like, the last thing I could have ever possibly imagined happening. I mean, I would tell people I was playing Spider-Man, and people would just break out laughing because it was so ridiculous!

It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact that they have so many legs! I am not great with spiders either. That absolutely creeps me out.