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Quotes About Ridiculous

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
~ Aldous Huxley
seguirás siendo alguien muy ridícula, muy melancólica, pintoresca y graciosa durante unos minutos, fatigante y atrozmente aburrida en la convivencia diaria.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Working in the shop has taught me how utterly ridiculous the female fear of knees is. It's a bloody knee. It's bone. We can't control our knees, our knees are not our fault. We cannot let this continue, we have to abandon this ridiculous new obsession and set the knee free.
~ Dawn O'Porter
Implying women are too weak to take a joke is *implicitlty* sexist, and ridiculous.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.
~ Henry Morton Stanley
I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.
~ John Stamos
Of course Meghan Markle wasn't driven out of this country by racism. It is a ludicrous claim and symptomatic of how ridiculous the must-be-offended-at-all-costs brigade has become.
~ Ann Widdecombe
I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
~ Alan Rickman
I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
~ Roger Ebert
I've definitely had my share of calls where I just laugh. Someone came to me once and wanted to do a signature Hawk cologne. I was like, 'Of what? Sweaty pads? Am I wringing out my pads into a little perfume bottle?'
~ Tony Hawk
It's easy to get swept up in the day to day ridiculous things that are in the news. They're not meaningless, they're legitimate and worth being engaged with. But it's easy to get overwhelmed and swept up and forget what real life feels like.
~ Phil Elverum
We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.
~ Andy Richter
'One Leg Too Few' by Peter Cook is a perfect sketch. The setting is ridiculous, the language is beautiful, and the performances make the most of every syllable and movement.
~ Jon Richardson
We have a First Amendment right to burn the flag as symbolic speech. The Constitution protects that right. To spend time and effort on this is ridiculous.
~ Deborah K. Ross
think you'd put the horses in the house, though," he guffawed.
~ Regina Jennings
I suspected the movies, considering her cheap crack about me being a ten-cent Clark Gable, which was ridiculous. He simpers, to begin with, and to end with no one can say I resemble a movie actor, and if they did it would be more apt to be Gary Cooper than Clark Gable.
~ Rex Stout
please?" "Ridiculous," he said curtly
~ Rex Stout
Run all the way to the end of the episode, float back down into the theatre, float into the movie, and then run it backward so everybody walks backward and talks backward, and throw in a little circus music so it's as ridiculous as it could be. Then, clear your mind for ten minutes and then go back and think of what you were afraid of. You will be amazed to discover that your fear has severely diminished if not disappeared entirely.
~ Richard Bandler
So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.
~ Rick Riordan
Nico di Angelo ran up to me with a big grin on his face. Percy, this is awesome! His blue-feathered bronze helmet was falling in his eyes, and his breastplate was about six sizes too big. I wondered if there was any way I'd looked that ridiculous when I'd first arrived.
~ Rick Riordan
They want to cook you and eat you, she said distatefully, which is ridiculous. You'd taste terrible. Thank you, grandmother.
~ Rick Riordan
In this struggle for our freedom of expression, there comes a point when this gender system reveals itself to be not only repressive but silly. When we begin to see how ridiculous it is, we can try begin to dismantle it.
~ Kate Bornstein
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
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.
~ Kate DiCamillo