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Quotes About Ridiculous

In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.
~ Ann Coulter
I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!
~ Chris Martin
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
~ Ugo Betti
Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.
~ Jay DeFeo
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
~ Thornton Wilder
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
~ James Payn
I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
~ Jules Renard
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
~ Fred Allen
That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.
~ Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
I heard a guy tell me he liked cherries. I waited to hear if he was going to say "tomatoes", then I realized he like cherries just. That joke is ridiculous.
~ Mitch Hedberg
My motto for fashion: If you can't afford to make an elegant statement, make a ridiculous one.
~ Stacey Jay, Romeo Redeemed
If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport.
~ Laura Davenport
Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.
~ Stefan Fatsis
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
~ Jane Austen
He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.
~ Alex Ferguson
This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everything Jane Austen read came alive, but, at the same time, her natural empathy with those she encountered through her reading was kept in check by a keen sense of the ridiculous and of the potential absurdity of emotional display.
~ Jane Aiken Hodge
People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the next wearing calculated clothes and expensive smiles
~ Jane Stanton Hitchcock
A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
Would you go into a relationship planning the breakup? Would you write the prenup on a first date? Would you meet with a divorce lawyer the morning of your wedding? That would be ridiculous, right?
~ Jason Fried
todo puede ser ridículo o trágico según quién lo cuente y cómo se cuente
~ Javier Marías
It was his misfortune to be in love with his wife; and this state of mind (in itself sufficiently ridiculous) and the shifts and compromises to which it reduced him, were a source of endless amusement to the humorists.
~ Edith Wharton
One of the less subtle animals in the forest, more uncouth in expression was overheard to remark, "I never heard of anything so ridiculous. If you want a lamb and a tiger to live in the same forest, you don't try to make them communicate. You cage the bloody tiger.
~ Edwin H. Friedman