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Quotes About Ludicrous

Tweedle dee and tweedle dum
~ Twain Mark Twain
From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with college basketball. I think it's ludicrous the way they take kids away that are certainly not prepared to play.
~ Bobby Knight
That silly pimp!
~ Thomas Berger
Master Bates saw something so exquisitely ludicrous in this reply, that he burst into another laugh; which laugh, meeting the coffee he was drinking, and carrying it down some wrong channel, very nearly terminated in his premature suffocation.
~ Charles Dickens
There are very few moments in a man's existence, when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.
~ Charles Dickens
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.
~ Carole Radziwill
It has taken me all these years to make the simplest discovery: that I am surrounded by two classes of maniacs. The first are the believers, who think they know the reason why we find ourselves in this ludicrous predicament yet act for all the world as if they don't. The second are the unbelievers, who don't know the reason and don't care if they don't.
~ Walker Percy
He's poodlishly ridiculous.
~ Walter Kaufmann
I made more money out of writing those four songs for Ozzy than I made out of fifteen years of Motörhead – ludicrous, isn't it!
~ Lemmy Kilmister
I had eight Chihuahuas and a gun in my hand. Could it get any more ridiculous?
~ Janet Evanovich
This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
~ Minnie Maddern Fiske
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.
~ Henry Ossawa Tanner
Society." John Forster, who would one day become Dickens's great friend, adviser, editor, and first biographer, wrote in the Examiner that Dickens had excelled particularly in his portraits of the ludicrous and the pathetic, all rendered in an "agreeable, racy style.
~ Les Standiford
If the media were doing their investigative job properly, the net of deviants would either be widened or abandoned altogether as ludicrous, as more and more of society's members - more and more members of the public - would be implicated in the tracing of this net. To single out sex workers serves a specific function: it removes the "disciplinary gaze" from all others.
~ Leslie Ann Jeffrey
This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.
~ James Carville
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.
~ Javier Marías
It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!
~ Terry Goodkind
Making movies is both entirely ludicrous and incredibly hard. It's a preposterous way to spend your time. You give up a lot for the privilege of doing it, and one of the things you get are relationships of immense trust that you see forged in situations of immense stress.
~ Paul Greengrass
This is so stupid it practically drools.
~ David Foster Wallace
Plan Number Three: Attack Him with All Available Weaponry. Ludicrous. I wasn't Tarzan. I was a puny, feeble, vegetarian life form.
~ Yann Martel
And it irritated me beyond all measure that a thought so enormous and ludicrous should return when my logic had dismissed it.
~ Clark Ashton Smith
There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
~ Unknown
If you ask me, I call the whole thing bally foolishness.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Would that I were still a ludicrous character in his lousy book!
~ Philip Roth