Ridiculous Quotes by Che Guevara, Richard P. Feynman, Roddy Piper, Sterling W Sill, Mark Lanegan, Lucas Neff and many others.
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.
I remember I did a character in ‘Robocop’ years ago – Commander Cash. I wore this really ridiculous outfit, and my face was covered. You couldn’t recognize me in the suit; you could only hear my voice.
There is a blueprint for every accomplishment-all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.
When I was in high school, I took French. I barely passed and didn’t learn anything at all. There was a joke among me and my friends in the class that nothing sounded more ridiculous than a guy with a country accent speaking French.
It’s ridiculous. My life’s been a series of happy accidents.
I’m a dad now and whatever I’m doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it – usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.
You know, you find that these stories … will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely … it’s ridiculous.
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
There’s no way Daniel Bryan can beat me in a Royal Rumble match. It’s ridiculous. He’s nowhere near as heavy as me; he doesn’t have a fraction of the strength I have. There are a lot of ways that Daniel Bryan can possibly beat me.
I’m, like, a compulsive eater. I’m going to be so fat when I’m older, it’s ridiculous.
[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
I still feel guilty buying something without asking my mother first. It’s ridiculous. I’ll call her and be like, ‘I saw this dress, can I get it?’ And she’ll say, ‘Margaret, whatever. Get the dress.’
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.
An Australian girl size 12 and a Swedish girl size 12 are completely different, just because of the way they’re formed. It’s becoming this worldwide movement because people are getting it. We all have two different parents; we’re not supposed to look the same. It’s ridiculous.
I’m with someone who’s got very high standards, and he doesn’t tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That’s not reason enough to marry someone, although people have gotten married for less.
President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.
Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
I don’t do match cuts really. That’s a ridiculous thing to say – I do. But we always explore how we can propel a scene, and that’s including dialogue, without doing match cuts. Because the audience is really willing to accept a lot of discontinuity.
So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.
Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.
How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
There’s nobody like us in rock history. I’m not saying we’re the greatest band in the world – that would be ridiculous.
Racism is ridiculous no matter where it’s coming from.
I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it’s ridiculous that some guys won’t sign for a kid.
I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
Why does everyone think they need to be a star? It’s ridiculous. The celebrity culture is so silly, and the fact that people grow up thinking that it’s something to aspire to just seems wrong. I don’t mean to bash my life. I love my life; I just think it’s not the only way to go.
It’s a weird thing to have a Hall of Fame for rock. It’s weird that I spent years worshiping the Cure, and here’s the Chili Peppers, and then one gets in one doesn’t. It’s ridiculous. In my heart of hearts, it means nothing to me, but I do understand it means a lot to other people. It creates positivity.
Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
St. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from that one narrow interpretation, what the Bible describes is very consistent with the Big Bang.
I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!
The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it’s $600 for that shirt. To me, that’s ridiculous. It’s just a shirt; it’s not worth the money.
Who’s going to save rock ‘n’ roll? It’s so silly. Remember like in ’86 or ’87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember “rocktronica” in 1997? It’s ridiculous.
This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table
That’s ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside.” “Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.
I do sort of feel like I’m building my monument with what I do, but it’s pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius like this, which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn’t even say that. It’s ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me.
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody’s nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It’s really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
Wait, I kinda do love you.
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
I have a ridiculous amount of confidence of protecting myself, but along with that confidence comes the ability that you don’t need to fight.
Well, I don’t like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don’t you go up and change? It’s perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
I think, you’re not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it’s not with an X on a piece of paper, it’s with an X on someone’s forehead.
I mean, dear old ‘Bergerac’, or dear young ‘Bergerac’ as he was then, he had a gammy leg, he was going through a nasty divorce with his wife, he was a recovering alcoholic, it’s a wonder he can get up in the morning let alone solve any crimes. And he also had to drive that ridiculous car.
No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.
It got so ridiculous that I was like, there’s no way this is going to last.
They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they’d say ‘I wish my Mom were like you.’
I used to watch ‘EastEnders’ till the plots got ridiculous.
I think when you see ‘Ridiculous Six,’ the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
Seeing Donald Trump run for and then win the presidency only enhanced my commitment to helping people free themselves from ridiculous body standards and disordered eating so they can use their gifts for more fulfilling things, like being of service and enjoying this beautiful world.
My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don’t be ridiculous. Maybe it’s because I’m British. To me, Julia Roberts that’s a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
The moon … is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.
I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another
Some people say I’ve got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I’d sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in ‘The Fifth Element.’ And I’m nothing like that blue alien. I’ve got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn’t blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.
To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of a value of a person is ridiculous.
There is this paradox in pride – it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you’re like, ‘Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?’ So at some point, I’m going to have to stop doing this. It’s gonna look ridiculous. I don’t wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old.
OK,” Josh said evenly, “I’ve seen men made of mud, I guess I can accept spying rats. Do they talk?” he wondered aloud. Don’t be ridiculous,” Flamel snapped, “They’re rats.” Josh really didn’t think it was a ridiculous suggestion.
Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.
I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention–it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature. Any word can be spelled just as well a different way.
It’s time to wake up to the reality that ignoring the genuine concerns of the ‘fringe,’ until it becomes the majority, is patently ridiculous. That the scapegoating of alternative opinions doesn’t work.
All this size 0! A bit ridiculous. There’s something creepy about fashion shows. The models look like they’re going to be tortured. They do this strange pony walk; their heels are so high, they can hardly walk. Creepy!
It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don’t get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo… What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey.
The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen’s head – or the King’s head, if we have a king – on our own coins.
I think it’s always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played Claudius, who’s supposed to be a 60-year-old man, and I was like 18. It’s inherently ridiculous seeing 18-year-old boys with gray beards. That’s always funny.
Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it’s not carbon. That is ridiculous. It’s an empty jar.
I like doing horror films. I think it’s helped me as an actress because you have to run and scream and cry for so long and do ridiculous things in front of strangers, you sort of break down any barriers, you can’t be embarrassed.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
It’s definitely time to stop. We’re getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn’t as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.
I can’t tell you what that first song was about. Something about love and a boy and a girl… And this boy can think of nothing but holding that girl’s hand in the darkness… All those ridiculous songs about love – I finally understood.
We got the vote, which we should’ve been born with, in 1920. Everything we’ve had to struggle for – it’s ridiculous.
It’s better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.
When I first played ‘1234’ it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it’s ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.
If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don’t say: Let’s stop fighting right now, because you’re not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.
There’s always something ridiculous happening on the set, especially when people get tired because of the long days.
I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh… I do hope I do not get bloated and self-satisfied. When proud feelings come I step up over them to the realm of work, to the thing I want, the liveness of the thing itself.
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don’t already believe it.
If we don’t act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.
Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.
As an actor, you don’t have much choice about your appearance. It’s a good excuse for looking ridiculous.
I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I’ve always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn’t wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What’s happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.
In France, if you have any sort of talent, you’d better keep it here. And if you’re going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle – American versus Frog cinema. It’s ridiculous.
I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can’t believe we named a major life changing event after livestock—or actually a stuffed animal—but it made sense at the time.
It’s entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography… I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that?
My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you’re happy, don’t. Why spoil it? You’re probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you’d just spoil it to know it.
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.
Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: ‘You say that there’s a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it’s too bad you didn’t get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.’
I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
… life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.
Everyone wants to know about the gold ring. Everyone knows already – it’s ridiculous.
Glimmer, I hear someone call her – ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.
When I was a child, she’d have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, ‘Mom, this is ridiculous.’ But now? I run my kitchen the same way.
‘Man Down”s my absolute priority. If they give me another series, I’ll throw everything into it because I really like the characters. But after that, I’ll certainly be getting back on stage because I haven’t done a proper gig for two years. Which is ridiculous for someone who loves it so much.
I am so pro-swine flu it’s – it’s like ridiculous.
As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don’t do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you’re 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don’t portray anything that says ‘I’m too cool and I don’t care.
I do shows, stage shows all the time, and I’m so afraid that people are going to recognize themselves, and they never do. They never do. They’re always like, ‘Oh, that woman was ridiculous,’ and yeah, they’re talking about themselves.
I don’t knock material rappers, but let me hear it in a different way. How many songs do I have to hear about rims on a car? It’s ridiculous. There’s no substance. It’s a hollow shell.
As a musician or a performer, you’re meant to know what you’re about, but it’s ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they’re about.
Because women can do nothing except love, they’ve given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it’s the whole of life. It’s an insignificant part.
I must furnish those, who would protect or save life, with an energy source, which produces energy so cheaply that nuclear fission will not only be uneconomical, but ridiculous. This is the task I have set myself in what little life I have left.
People are terrified of them to the point where Trump wants to ban all Muslims from coming here, which is ridiculous.
I write in a bunch of different ways, but my favourite way is to walk around my neighbourhood at ridiculous hours, like 2am. I feel like the movement helps me clear my thoughts so I can just get all of the words out and type them onto my phone.
Any tragic memory I have I also think is really funny. On any given day, I can think about how horrible something is and also how ridiculous and over-the-top it is.
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
You wear clothes so beautifully!
I like Hindi movies. Although my wife thinks the hero and heroine breaking into a song and dance every five minutes is ridiculous, but I find them entertaining.
In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It’s ridiculous.
The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.
I sometimes wonder, the tendency for anybody, especially when you’re with friends and you’re in the trenches, is to laugh at the stuff that you interpret as ridiculous or silly, and to grouch about the things that you interpret as not being good. That to me isn’t morale, that’s just like getting through the day.
I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it’s just a ridiculous pace.
What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]
I think it’s ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.
Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
That’s our plan? We’re going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn’t get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?” “Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice.” “Tone of….I’m asking you a question!
In this industry there’s this ridiculous connotation with women shows that’s it’s got to be difficult, and it’s not true.
The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don’t get a vampire story about abstinence. I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
That’s the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
A lot of independent films try to pull off a 14-day shooting schedule, which I think is ridiculous. No matter how big or small you are, it really kills whatever sort of time you get to allow the actors to find their characters, and to spend time to think about what they’re doing.
Out of 35 pictures I made, 30 were ridiculous.
If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people. The fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys that I either hugged on a red carpet or met for lunch or wrote a song with … it’s just kind of ridiculous.
There’s a myth about actors saying, ‘Oh no, that’s not me on screen at all. I’m just acting.’ OK, if I were to say to you that’s not me, that’s fine. And I would tell you that I don’t behave like a villain everyday, and that’s true, I don’t. But to say there’s absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.
Betrayal isn’t ridiculous. It’s the reason empires fall.
I once was in a project. They were going to do a remake. Somebody started a rumor I wanted more money. I said, ‘This is ridiculous. I’d kill for this project!’
It’s embarrassing to tell you how much my friends make fun of me. Seriously, when you have a doll made of your face, it’s ridiculous how creative your friends can get… pictures, videos, little animated cartoons that they’ve made.
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?
Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what’s challenging in most episodes is the monster. You’re always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.
If I can learn how to pitch in two months, and I’m doing OK, how can we not assume that a woman who’s been working on it for her entire life won’t be playing in the MLB? It’s ridiculous.
[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,… could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster.
There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.
People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don’t vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.
Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.
The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don’t do the obvious thing.
The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That’s like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.
I’m obsessive enough about getting fit, it’s ridiculous. I’m 40 now, and I’ve got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!
I’m ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me… and my father is a decidedly private person.
I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.
The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade.
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.
I think it’s pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we’ve changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.
As ridiculous as it is for anybody who knows how movies are made, there were people who actually wrote in reviews that this picture [Bad Influence] had been put out to capitalize on the scandal. Which, of course, would have been impossible.
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
You know how you toilet paper and egg somebody’s house? I did it, right? But I did it back-to-back nights, Saturday and Sunday. They called the police. Good thing nobody got arrested but that was something embarrassing and stupid. Why would you do the same house twice? It was ridiculous.
Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to ridiculous obsessiveness, in my experience.
The Bond situations to me are so ridiculous, so outrageous. I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy, and yet everybody knows he’s a spy.
But once you get down to reality, there’s no one to play her and there’s no movie. It would be ridiculous.
It’s ridiculous if you ask me. I don’t know what any of us are doing here. But we’re a tribe, a network, cruising the galaxy. We have offices in every loka, in every part of existence. I suppose you make that out to be a unique situation. We’re Unique! No, I don’t think so. We’re enlightenment.
I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don’t waste any time when you’re doing theater of the ridiculous.
There are a lot of people who are considered ‘camp’ who have no idea how ridiculous they are.
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and
vigorous nutriment.
vigorous nutriment.
You cannot say that one woman is ‘more beautiful’ than another, though people always do. It’s so ridiculous to say that.
I’ve always felt that Donald Trump was a Dickensian character because he is so ridiculous. With his hair and his arrogance, he is certainly Dickensian in his absurdity.
You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.
For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
I have been pregnant in so many movies it’s ridiculous.
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.
There’s people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we’ve got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn’t it ridiculous?
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Insight makes argument ridiculous.
I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup.
As physics has proven, we’re ultimately particulate matter, which means we are all one. That’s why racial and gender bias is so ridiculous.
To suggest that you can’t be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
The reality is you do not know exactly what is likely to occur tomorrow. Lifetime can be a ridiculous trip, and practically nothing is confirmed.
I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it’s either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.
With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.
If the Pope wants to devote his life to fighting climate change, then he can do so in his personal time. But to promote questionable science as Catholic dogma is ridiculous.
Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I’m being ridiculous.
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.
You don’t have to look like an old fuddy-duddy, but I believe it was Chanel who said, вЂNothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately hard to look young’. I think you can be attractive at any age. I think trying to look like a spring chicken when you’re not makes you look ridiculous.
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.
To state that the cost of proper medical care itself surpasses the financial resources of any of the countries in the West is of course ridiculous, not the least when one considers the other purposes for which money is freely being used and working hours spent.
Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.
It is ridiculous – like a mad whirlwind… it’s mad that I’m so famous.
I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. ‘Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.’ She looks up and gives me her full gaze. ‘Don’t be ridiculous,’ she purrs, ‘I wrote it.’
My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it – film-making, the music world, painting – because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
I just think it’s ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.
There is no way that me or anyone else could be like Coach Bryant. I think it would be ridiculous for anyone to try.
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
‘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.
People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, … They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I’m slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy.
At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He’s just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don’t see anything twisted about it. It’s sort of ridiculous and wacky. It’s sort of fun.
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they’re your weird creations in some kind of way. I don’t even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It’s just absurd.
Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don’t mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.
We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.
The idea that American producers and directors are choosing black British talent to save themselves a buck or two is ridiculous – it’s because we’re damn good.
I’m not as klutzy as I used to be… I’ve had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time.
Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we ‘keep’ our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This ‘solution’, I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.
Lillian shut her eyes briefly, as if she hoped when she opened them she would behold a world in which people never said ridiculous things.
If you’ve had a marriage that ended because of a betrayal in trust on your spouse’s behalf, the idea of trusting another person with your heart can seem completely ridiculous.
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
It would be ridiculous to say I don’t want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what’s her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.
Everybody laughs at me because I don’t really wear much make-up. I have to be forced and usually people buy make-up for me because they’re like, this is ridiculous.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem… ridiculous.
Keeping ridiculous hours doesn’t mean you’ll be successful.
The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.
The occult – what do you mean, Jesus? That’s occult to me. It’s so far-fetched, it’s ridiculous.
I want the ‘Book of Basketball’ to do well if only so I can shop an absolutely ridiculous topic for my next book: like, a book about basketball cards, or an unauthorized biography of A. J. Daulerio.
The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it’s very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.
[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It’s just ridiculous.
If someone says to you, ‘Go to an old-folks’ home,’ that’s kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.
It’s not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
Not everyone wants you all the time, Jace,” he said. “Don’t be ridiculous.
I’ve viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven’t quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.
You don’t want to get too ridiculous on the weekdays.
The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, ‘Man, am I glad I’m not doing that anymore.’ I never feel nostalgia, just relief.
Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of ‘postmodern theatre’. So I said to my office, ‘This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don’t know what it means, but… they’re paying me a lot of money, so I’ll go.’
Some things are so tragic that you don’t know what’s funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don’t know if it’s worth talking about it.
I’m not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.
Dallas is an extraordinary place in it’s own right. The first thing about Dallas that you can’t get away from, particularly when I arrived, you’ve got no idea of the heat in this place. It’s over 100 degrees, and with that the humidity is ridiculous. I mean, people don’t live here, armadillos live here.
I’m never going again on Met Gala. It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.
I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
‘Discworld’ is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.
I’m healthy as an ox. And you?” “To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I’m fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
This sounds ridiculous, but my political inspiration is not Marx or Engels or Вanything like that. It was my mum.
Vanity’s ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.
We like being ridiculous and I think that’s lost on a lot of people, or they think we’re coming from this super serious angle, and that’s too bad, really.
I feel that there is a decision people make to either engage in a legitimately ridiculous process to get your kid into school, or choose not to engage in that so much, and end up finding a nice local school that fits.
You can’t win with some people. If you’re not in government, you’re criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you’re criticised for wanting power. That’s the Labour party’s line of attack, and it’s a bit ridiculous.
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative – ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.
There’s nothing that winds me up more on Twitter than people who are stupid, and who say the most ridiculous things.
For a relative newcomer, it’s obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That’s a dream.
She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.
Overall when you work in fashion, you’re always in a rush. You’re always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment’s important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It’s ridiculous.
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.
Poles and Jews have been living on this land together for almost 1,000 years. Who can tell how much Jewish blood is in their veins? Nobody knows, so to talk about how to recognize if someone is Jewish is ridiculous.
We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn’t play, and I think it’s ridiculous to try to even compare people… The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn’t even do then… you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.
Obama’s great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous.
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
And I love Jennifer Lawrence. She’s a total fox. And such a good actress. It’s ridiculous.
In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I’ve had is winning, and that’s ridiculous.
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
A lot of people have ridiculous misconceptions about diet and workout routines. It is not about exotic greens and workouts from the western world. It is about what works for you the best.
It’s incredible, ridiculous really, isn’t it? You realise you can make more money on the golf tour in one week than some people make in a lifetime.
I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that’s ridiculous.
There’s just something about me and my persona that’s a little bit bigger than life and ridiculous at times.
As a child, I’d help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous – she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. ‘Stop! Don’t use that, I have exactly the right utensil.’ After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I’ve become her.
It is ridiculous to take on a man’s job just in order to be able to say that ‘a woman has done it – yah!’ The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.
Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
It’s amazing how lucky Westlife were and what we achieved. It’s very rare to have seven number ones in a row. Ridiculous in fact.
Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
In America, the new post-postmodern politician is all about authenticity: the daffier you are, the ‘realer’ you must be. The more you have committed yourself to a ridiculous idea and fevered view, the more worthy you are of attention.
It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
We aren’t safe in our own home, in our own country, and in our own land. For me, it is the most ridiculous thing ever. The rate at which women are being harmed is rapidly growing and is unacceptable.
My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Great men of action… never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
I have this ridiculous idea that art should just be for everyone, and everyone should get to enjoy art and it shouldn’t be this exclusive thing.
Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
I had a babysitter when I was 12 or younger. I had a big crush on her. She was really spontaneous and fun and loved to make us sing and dance and paint. She was the coolest person in the world. I guess I did have my young love. I did everything to impress her. Everything possible. It was just ridiculous.
Why wait for reasons to laugh? Life as it is should be reason enough to laugh. It is so absurd, it is so ridiculous. It is so beautiful, so wonderful! It is all sorts of things together. It is a great cosmic jokРµ.
I come from a family of scrap metal dealers, so becoming an actor seemed like a ridiculous thing to do, but I’d found the thing that gave me a kick, and I quickly became obsessed with it.
Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.
There’s a notion I’d like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it’s totally dysfunctional.
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.
The moment when I press the shutter is fantastic, orgasmic, so charged with the hope that this will be a great, original, interesting, and perfectly composed photo. But like any other exciting thing in life, it is usually spoiled by some ridiculous, unpredictable, and annoying detail.
Anyone who’s married to Mariah Carey – I’m pretty sure – doesn’t have a great sense of humor. I mean, let’s be honest: she’s ridiculous. What is her game plan?
You’re always asking yourself, are you doing the best for your child? And other parents let you know if you’re not, just not in a direct way. There’s a sense of competition, which is ridiculous because you know deep down you’re all suffering.
Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.
That’s what my wardrobe room looks like. It’s all costumes and props. It’s ridiculous.
If you get a wrinkle, I don’t feel that’s indicative of your losing ground. That’s ridiculous.
My love of Seagal is ridiculous. Like, I love this man. I love how ridiculous he is. I mean, he made an album called ‘Songs From The Crystal Cave.’
I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.
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.
I felt like I had to be, you know, perfect, which is ridiculous. Nobody’s perfect.
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
Everyone just wants to see what you can do for yourself. People think that just because I have some big ridiculous number on my myspace page that it’s all easy for me. People are interested but I don’t come home to labels waiting outside my house.
My weakness is ‘American Idol.’ My husband thinks it’s ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
I’m just a swell guy. No, that’s a ridiculous notion – if you’re being an asshole to people, you’re being an asshole, that’s all there is to it. It can’t be rationalized because you wrote something worthwhile. First obligation is to other people.
I’ve read some things where people are like, ‘Beyonce wants to be white’ because she has blonde highlights in her hair, but it’s ridiculous. You know, she is who she is, and she’s a very proud black woman. I know people with natural hair that are the least black inside; you know, it doesn’t matter.
I just go out and sing my songs. I don’t put on elaborate stage shows with ridiculous fancy dress.
I’m, like, a compulsive eater. I’m going to be so fat when I’m older, it’s ridiculous.
I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that’s ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.
For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are…businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but — ominously — fewer and fewer people laugh at it.
Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
But I do realize I’m going to have to go through the pregnancy again. Mine was a really difficult pregnancy. It’s tough. Of course I want to have another child. We’ll see. I’m going to have one more, and see what it’s like.
I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.
I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they’re very, very funny people, but they don’t really try to be. They’re not cracking jokes.
To me, most theatre looks ridiculous. I find it very difficult to do. Personally, if I ever try to do serious stuff, I always end up looking like an asshole, so I might as well try and do comedy, because I’m good at that.
And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn’t care how much the earth weighed.
It’s just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they’re so ridiculous and they’re so frightening in a way, the filmmakers’ are trying everything, that they just end up being funny.
I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.
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.
I’m a little disappointed in what’s happened. I’m beginning to lose faith in Obama. This Syria thing is ridiculous. He should not be drawing red lines.
Al Gore in 2000. He got a half a million more votes than George Bush and lost. How can that be? It’s ridiculous. It’s an elitist system. It’s so they pick your President. You don’t – the people – and it needs to be abolished.
I wouldn’t even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous.
Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It’s not Islam.
With the abuse, and wear and tear the body takes in this career, it’s ridiculous to put in that time and effort and have nothing to show for it.
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.
If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.
I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach – some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah – they’re all the same as that coach.
JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king’s household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king’s own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.
Jealousy, anger, fear – these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.
It’s ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don’t feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick out of it – she’d find it very funny. I’ll take it though. I’m very humble. But it’s certainly not the way I feel.
When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
We – America – have to move past the ideology, the tribalism, that grips this country. As ridiculous as this sounds, I believe ‘Black Panther,’ the film, could help us do that if it addresses issues of tribal polarization and, by extension, racism, xenophobia, and homophobia in an entertaining, non-preachy way.
It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape – you absolutely need to have fast-moving news online, but if you want to build a large audience over time, you absolutely have to take a risk on the big challenging stuff.
Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.
I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.
I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.
It’s ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there’s a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you — the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what’s wrong and try to make it better. That’s what a patriotic American does.
I heard there was a debate about fighting teammates, and if a fight should happen because the fans or promoter wants it, I will fight a teammate, but family is ridiculous.
This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped in sufficient profundity that they take on a kind of plausibility.
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
I’m one of those guys that – as far as relationships and stuff go – if you smile at me, I’m like, ‘Let’s date for three years’ – which is just ridiculous.
If you’ve been nominated for an Oscar, it would be ridiculous to say you didn’t want to win. It would be lovely to have one of those statues.
The ‘Weston’ is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn’t willing to go out in the acting world as ‘Tom Jones,’ ’cause I’m Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.
Don’t get a job in an abattoir. Don’t be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal’s head off for a living.
It’s especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you’re so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.
I wonder what Heaven must think of the people down here on this small black speck in the universe that is earth, or of all their talk about the last few years-which are no more than a flash compared with eternity-being ‘a time of emergency.” It’s really ridiculous.
Look how ridiculous are Americans. They blame us for everything.
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.
I don’t like horror, which is ridiculous because I’ve been in three horror movies, but when I see those things, I see camera tricks and fake blood and actors screaming and I don’t know understand why other actors don’t see that.
You can control and censor a child’s reading, but you can’t control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child’s heart.
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Designers do a lot of clothes I would like to wear but I can’t. If it had to be made up in my size It would look ridiculous. You can’t always wear what’s in style. You have to realize what looks good on you.
How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.
To say a scientist is not at all responsible is wrong. But to say that someone who invents a piece of knowledge or technology is responsible for all future uses is ridiculous. It doesn’t have to be that binary.
That openness to experimentation in Seattle is how I learned a drag queen doesn’t have to just be in her pageant gear and lip syncing to top 40. Drag can be off-the-wall, ridiculous, profound.
I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we’re working on songs together. Ridiculous.
It’s a humorous statement that doesn’t mean anything. You can’t lie to God – it’s ridiculous.
Some things are ridiculous and just as us players and coaches need to improve, so does VAR.
Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It’s an absolutely ridiculous model, because I’ve said that if you gave me $2.5 million, I can train 100 grandmothers, solar electrify 100 villages – 10,000 houses – and save you 100,000 litres of kerosene.
For taxpayers, however, it’s [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That’s why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.
I’m just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who’s trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There’s absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.
It’s ridiculous, but it’s horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn’t is lying.
I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
With technology expanding at this ridiculous pace, bit by bit we’re losing our humanity and our ability to connect with each other without having electronic media in the middle.
One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money – putting a price on your childhood – is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can’t put a price on them.
Joey Porter is not one of the people I have respect for. His unprofessionalism is ridiculous.
It’s ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health – like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn’t. It’s just a part of people’s bodies.
One of my best friends is dating my other best friend, Lena!
The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?
Because it gives him and excuse to be around her–without making it look like he gave in first. That way, he can still seem manly.” “That’s ridiculous.” Especially the part about Christian being manly. “Guys do ridiculous things for love.
I have seen Tommy Emanuel play; my wife and I went to see him and he just melted my face off. How do you play guitar like that? There are so many people that play at a ridiculous level and I sit there watching them and I’m like, ‘Wow, wish I could do that.’
In future, Clarissa,” he said, “it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations.” You invited him into bed?” Simon demanded, looking shaken. Ridiculous, isn’t it?” said Jace. “We would never have all fit.
I should have warned her about your habit of never doing what you’re told.” Jace squinted at her. “Are those Isabelle’s clothes? They look ridiculous on you.” “I could point out that you burned my clothes.” -Jace and Clary pg. 63
I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory … One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.
When I moved down to Houston, I had people who were willing to support me with sponsorships and different endorsement deals. That’s really how I stayed afloat. It isn’t ridiculous money where you can live however you want – I still have to be disciplined – but I’ve been very blessed with having people to support me.
It’s too easy to dismiss Donald Trump as a buffoon – to point and laugh at a man whose worldview is as ridiculous as his hairdo. But to do so is to make light of a very serious threat.
I’m a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, ‘Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo’s Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.’
My wife loves ‘Scandal,’ and I’m hooked on ‘Homeland.’ Sometimes I ask news makers, off the record, what rings true about those shows and what’s ridiculous.
I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I’m stuck with them.
Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.
I’ve met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can’t see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves… only about you.
I’m not religious anymore, but I think it’s like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact.
What is Time… That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!
After ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it’s not something I’m insecure about.
Half the things I’ve done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn’t have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.
Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.
I love layers. And I definitely love boots and hats, I have a ridiculous amount.
I really never saw an obstacle for me in taking leadership positions because, in a very ridiculous way, I thought, ‘If Mary Robinson can do it then why can’t I?’
I think it’s ridiculous when a character wakes up in the morning with lipstick and foundation and contour and fake eyelashes and hair done.
It would be ridiculous for anyone to consider me the face of Korean art.
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid – the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
Valentine’s day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine’s Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone’s like ‘Oh, happy valentine’s day!’ I even got a Valentine’s Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago!
The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it’s kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains – daisy chains – of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between ‘his,’ ‘her’ or ‘their’ wish and yours.
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Of children as of procreation — the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
We don’t like to be forced off our own tour, onto foreign soil, to qualify for our Olympic teams. That’s ridiculous.
Humans are ridiculous. We’re all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it’s optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you’re never going to get there, and that’s OK.
I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
And in fact you’re not like everyone else: you weren’t ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.
Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.
The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
This is payback, isn’t it?” Jim glared at me. “Don’t be ridiculous,” I told him. “As the Consort of the Pack, I’m far above petty revenge.
The weird thing is when you’re a gay guy my age, I spent so much of my life just thinking I was probably never going to date anyone, so now just thinking, “all right, settle down and have a child” seems ridiculous to me.
There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it’s ridiculous.
The clown has great importance as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We should put the emphasis on the rediscovery of our own individual clown, the one that has grown-up within us and which society does not allow us to express.
Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs.
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Absurdity is the one thing love can’t stand; it can overlook anything else, — coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, — but just be ridiculous and that’s the end of it!
The awards world can be ridiculous, but I’m not one to bash it. I love awards! When I’ve been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn’t have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.
Everyday life is pretty funny and pretty ridiculous and occasionally really great, though not all the time, and that’s all part of it.
I’ve had enough of the bleak headlines and divisive politics, dark TV dramas and hate-filled social media. I’m embracing a new movement with a slightly ridiculous name and a single mission, to make the world a better place. It’s called ‘hopepunk’.
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 quite difficult to take a superhero movie seriously because everything is heightened. A kid being bitten by a radioactive spider and getting superpowers is kind of ridiculous.
I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much [as] finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.
“Well, at least you know it works this time,” she said, getting on behind him. “If we crash into the parking lot of a Key Food, I’ll kill you, you know that?” “Don’t be ridiculous,” said Jace. “There are no parking lots on the Upper East Side. Why drive when you can get your groceries delivered?”
To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.
Tons of people want to see movies about women but they don’t want to make them. I don’t know why. I think that’s insane because look at some of these big movies like Maleficent, they’re huge. It’s ridiculous. So, it is really hard but I’m determined to do something about that.
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are… …We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.
I’m the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
Instead of talking about the fact that Hillary Clinton violated about 40 federal laws we are talking about this [that this president’s Barack Obama is legitimately elected president of the United States and you say your candidate agrees with you]. It is ridiculous.
Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.
When I first heard about Beverly Hills Chihuahua, I thought, no. This, this is ridiculous. And then you read the script and you close the script and you go, “They aren’t going to be able to do that with real dogs. How are they going to do that?” You’re going to see the strings. But they did.
I suppose there are times when I can’t believe that I’ve lived the way that I have and done the things that I’ve done. Life’s a joke anyway. It’s all ridiculous. It’s all so short.
People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.
Big ideas don’t make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or reject. Every successful picture I’ve done has really been based on taking a very flimsy, fleeting little idea, grabbing hold of it, and taking it seriously.
I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I’d get out of it myself if I could, though you’ve got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can’t teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.
The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, ‘Hey, let’s go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear a Warner Brothers picture is playing there.’ Or, ‘Let’s go to this theater, I hear the film came in on budget.’ It’d be ridiculous.
I can’t imagine putting my name on a t-shirt. For someone to wear my name? Me? It’s ridiculous.
If Apple, Amazon, Netflix, or somebody else can ever blast away all the ridiculous vestiges of decades-old TV content and technology we live with today, I’ll buy whatever they come up with. Until then, I’m settling for a Caavo.
I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
Lucy Lawless presented a couple of the awards. And, when I walked off the stage with her after one of them, she said “Oh, I want to introduce you to my friend Madeleine,” and that’s how I met Madeleine. I realize that’s a ridiculous story.
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they’re not absurd.
If you were to hold me to a standard of, ‘What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?’ then my music’s gonna be ridiculous.
To me, the goal of building useless and ridiculous robots is more – I mean, in some way, it’s like a personal goal because I think it’s really fun, and I think having fun is super important to create things.
That I’m an alcoholic is completely ridiculous.
In terms of TV shows, if you’re a public figure, we’ve all been asked to do some sort of ridiculous show at some stage.
This is a ridiculous heat wave we’re in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.
Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it – performers as well – and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.
I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.
I’m ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I’m not.
I’m actually not making fun of my real parents. I’ve taken stereotypical traits of my real parents, my aunts, my uncles and parents of every race and put them into these two characters, who are just over-the-top ridiculous and super-alpha parents about everything.
The fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!
The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I’m trying to do. It’s so much more about when I’m going to get time to do it, if I get time.
Ridiculous that some people feel superior to the gay minority. They’re the only couples you’ll ever find poking around for ceramics and candle holders in the winery gift shop and both parties really want to be there.
I looked at Justin, and I was like: “Do you want me to go onstage for you?”
I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.
Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.
Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.
When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow’s lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
I think people assume that because I talk the way that I talk that I grew up with money, and then I’ve had to say, ‘No, I grew up poor.’ And then I was like, ‘Why do I have to play this game where the only black experience that’s authentic is the one where you grew up in poverty?’ I mean, it’s ridiculous.
I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.
I depended a lot on being an over-the-top, ridiculous, obnoxious, Staten Island Princess. That’s what I did, and I guess the rest is history.
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
I just always believed we would succeed. Even when everyone else said my ideas were ridiculous. Even when we were almost out of money. Even when the metrics were all upside down. I always have confidence that I’ll figure something out. I just have that confidence that things are going to work out fine.
Isabelle’s clothes looked ridiculous. Clary had to roll the legs on the jeans up several times before she stopped tripping on them, and the plunging neckline of the red tank top only emphasized her lack of what Eric would have called a “rack.
Among the many things that I loved about playing football was sitting around the locker room with teammates and poking fun at each other with sophomoric slams, each one more ridiculous than the next.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Steve McManaman once described Zinedine Zidane as ridiculous. You can’t get a higher compliment than that.
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
So many times we’re portrayed in ways that we don’t want to be portrayed, in ways that make us seem so ridiculous.
I think, whenever you’re doing anything, you don’t want anyone anywhere to watch it and think that what your character is doing is ridiculous. You don’t want anyone to watch it and go, ‘Oh my God, that’s just fortuitous.’
I think it’s ridiculous and appalling that people have to go abroad to end their life instead of being able to end their life at home.
It’s a simple question of supply and demand. But all of us are grossly overpaid. I think it’s a ridiculous dispute.
Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
Madame Lily Devalier always asked “Where are you?” in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.
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.
To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It’s almost impossible to do it without any humour
We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.
Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
Sometimes I’ll watch a music video of a great performer like Beyonce and try to follow her choreography. Yeah, maybe I look ridiculous, but dancing gets your energy up a lot better than running on a treadmill or pedaling a stationary bike.
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.
[Fr., On n’est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l’on a que par celles que l’on affecte d’avoir.]
[Fr., On n’est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l’on a que par celles que l’on affecte d’avoir.]
My dad went to medical school, and when he studied he listened to music so he has a ridiculous CD collection. That was always something we had growing up from him; there was always good music playing at the house.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Being in Australia makes me happy. My partner is Australian, and my home is in Australia, and it’s ridiculous not to be Australian – it’s a logical step to take.
You don’t make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it – that is ridiculous.
Reality really is theater. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven’t done anything yet, and I think it’s just common sense to send me to Washington and make me do my share.
There’s been no major motion picture released by a studio, no independent motion picture, in theaters, with King at the center, in the 50 years since these events happened, when we have biopics on all kinds of ridiculous people. And nothing on King? No cinematic representation that’s meaningful and centered.
Following fashion trends, however ridiculous or uncomfortable.
We’re surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves… They say, ‘Look what I can do,’ and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that’s ridiculous. Filmmaking isn’t a contest!
I think Rafael BenГtez was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he’ll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous.
My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it’s the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.
I’m not a huge spender. Sometimes when you pay a lot, you’re paying for the company’s advertising. It feels ridiculous to pay for a name.
Gaga the person is much like Gaga the celebrity. She is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her fans, and she is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her friends. On stage, she is over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine on stage, and she is very over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine with her friends.
Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into any society or profession whatever, will be less surprised to find prevarication still prevailing, where perjury has led the way.
It’s that quirky kind of weekend feeling they write ridiculous sunny-day songs about. You know the ones–I’m sure they’re on your iPod even though you’d never admit it.
I’m a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then you’re stupid.
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they ‘have no talent for it.’ Ridiculous. Talent has nothing to do with it. The only thing that matters is mental discipline.
What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I dont know what to say, really.
… all of my life I’ve made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As far as I’m concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?
I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader – I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.
It’s been great, I have to dig deep for really raw emotions and at the same time I have to use my intellect to say the ridiculous medical jargon while acting and treating a patient and then I have to try to have a personality and emotions as well. So it is definitely hard work.
We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,’ the prince said, ‘is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous
I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring – and my parents supported it, for better or worse.
The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is ridiculous.
This is a slippery slope in addition to that. At what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can – can I marry this table, or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous.
I don’t want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.
I long to be … Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.
The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that’s what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people’s advice. There’s a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.
It’s ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that’s important.
Any fighter, at the end of the day, that says it’s not about the money is ridiculous. We wouldn’t be training this hard, putting our bodies on the line, and torturing our bodies if there wasn’t a payday at the end of the day.
It’s kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you’ve gone through it, you realize that it’s the enemy. It’s a distraction from what you’re really doing. You’ve got to keep moving. Like a shark.
I’ve been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that’s obsessed with one thing, unless it’s, like, jeans, it’s very dangerous. Everyone’s obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It’s ridiculous.
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
When you get older, you look at who has power differently. When you’re 21 years old, and you do something ridiculous at the National Art Gallery and get kicked out by the security guard, in your mind, you’re speaking truth to power.
I’m really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.
The whole thing about whether you smoke marijuana or not is so ridiculous. That and whether you protested the Vietnam War. Give me a break. Especially the marijuana thing.
I immediately understood the general air of humiliation that comes with trying to do something as ridiculous as be an actor in Hollywood. It’s just kind of an embarrassing endeavor.
I walked by a dry cleaner at 3 am, and there was a sign: “Sorry, we’re closed” You don’t have to be sorry, it’s 3 am, and you’re a dry cleaner! It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open! I’m not gonna walk in at 10 am and say “I walked by here at 3 and you were closed – somebody owes me an apology!”
This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.
I’ve been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.
When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come… the mystery is created in (their) minds, and by waiting for disaster, it is from their very minds that it occurs.
Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it’s faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them.
I’m grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.
When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best.
It’s fun to be in a place where ridiculous is normal.
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.
My brother and I are kind of known for doing fairly ridiculous and stupid things.
A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.
I’ve always said it’s flattering to be desired, just as it’s flattering that people accept the reality of the character you play. But it was always ridiculous to assume that because I could play a gigolo on screen I’d play anything like that role off screen.
excuse me’ he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, ‘i’m afraid i’m becoming ridiculous
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
When I was in London for The Brits recently I read that I had asked for a Jacuzzi in the dressing room – how ridiculous is that?
If you can relate to what the character’s going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possible, and people will relate to it. You can be fearless in your storytelling if you’re vigilant about protecting your characters.
There’s going to be a Halloween costume [of lavash from Sausage Party]. The whole thing is just so ridiculous. It’s nice. It’s silly, and it’s surreal.
I watch too many crime shows – it’s ridiculous.
You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can.
I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don’t believe in romanticism and make-believe.
It’s pretty ridiculous how nice people are in Milwaukee. It’s like you’re a member of everyone’s family or something.
I’m not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to ‘play’ sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.
Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!
I’d walk and think about my entire life. I’d find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.
Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!
I know this sounds ridiculous, but I’m not much of a fighter.
Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine
I’ve always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridiculous.
Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
I’m a jeans fanatic. It’s ridiculous how many jeans I have.
If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.
Justin Bieber, I love to death. He’s such a cool, ridiculous, much crazier kid in real life – more than he’s really allowed to be, because he’s a Unicorn and very rare.
It’s ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal.
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
Thank goodness we don’t have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.
Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.
I used to be so angry. I think back to my early days as a critic in the late 1990s, and I blush. I would go swaggering into restaurants in some ridiculous tramp disguise, challenging them to mistreat me, order the things I was least likely to enjoy, then hurl my plate aside in a fury and demand to see the manager.
Let’s be honest, working in stop motion is awful. It’s the worst. It’s such a stupid way to make a movie. It’s ridiculous. You’re literally playing around with these dolls that are maybe 9 inches tall, trying to coax a performance out of it.
This is something we’re seeing more, especially with patients from outside of this country. They love body modification, they love having things done that we don’t do in this country. For example, putting pubic hair on your eyelashes. What practitioner in this country would do something that ridiculous?
You’ve seen my statements; I do very well. I don’t mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it’s ridiculous, OK?
Life is ridiculous. It’s not our fault.
The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.
A building is no good if someone’s got to explain to you why it’s good. You can’t say you don’t know enough about architecture – that’s ridiculous. It’s got to work on many levels.
I think the criticism Coach Greg Jackson gets is ridiculous and it makes me angry.
This stereotype as Marcus Mariota as a spread quarterback that just runs read options all the time, that’s ridiculous.
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
At castings for commercials, you end up being told to do ridiculous things, such as animal impersonations. You probably get one commercial for 20 utter humiliations.
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
I can go right, I can go left, I’m amphibious.
In the sometimes ridiculous action scenarios you’re laughing out loud, and so the more committed and in fact the more highbrow the music is, the funnier it is.
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible
It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.
I’m just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids with their homework. Mind you, I’m terrible at maths. I can’t even do my six-year-old’s maths homework with her.
I got booed by my own fans when I came on in my first game for England. You go through things that are ridiculous. But you get to the stage you realise everyone’s got an opinion.
There wasn’t really anything I wanted to do other than acting, which is ridiculous because there were no actors in my family, and we didn’t know anything about acting.
I have hobbies. I do all sorts of ridiculous things.
Look, when people came after me for doing ‘Indecent Proposal’ or ‘Disclosure,’ I thought, ‘Ridiculous.’ These people are trying to limit me as an actor. Are they saying I can’t play these roles? Well, I’ve proved I can.
I just desperately wanted to be thin. That’s all I thought. I was obsessed with it, which it was ridiculous because I had everything going for me. I was following my dream. Everything I wanted at the time, I was getting. But I was obsessed with this other thing that was making me unhappy.
When I realise that I don’t have a lot of time left to do what I’m meant to do in terms of buying things, that’s when things begin to feel Christmassy for me – when I realise that time is against me, and I’ve got to act; otherwise, I’ll look ridiculous.
If you’re a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
My favorite tweets are the, ‘I used to like and then you said this,’ ‘I used to like you then you suggested that president Trump was not the savior of all of us.’ It’s absolutely ridiculous.
With regard to Trump, he’s saying some things that I just think are ridiculous and would disqualify any other candidate.
If you have a game where you’re under pressure, obviously there are going to be a lot of shots on target, and you’re going to make saves, but you can’t say you played well in a game where you concede five goals. It’s ridiculous.
To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain ‘importance’ – I can think of nothing more ridiculous.
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
I was just having fun because everybody was so much shorter than me. Honestly, my stats in high school were ridiculous. They made no sense.
Do we really want to base our 21st-century policy on what the colonialist preferred at a certain time in history, not at all based on health or what the preferences of different cultures might be? That’s just ridiculous.
If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it’s ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.
Sometimes I’ve drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I’ve felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial way. When you find yourself thinking and worrying about certain things they become ridiculous.
I have Googled so many things related to possible diseases, and it’s always ridiculous. Like, ‘My toe is hurting. Do I have cancer?’ ‘I have a scratch in my eye. Am I going to die soon?’ ‘Is eating a soup going to make me die?’
Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts.
I’m having a great time. It’s like I’m on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what’s happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
But it’s healthy – whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting’s such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.
My dreams as a kid were so far below the Grammys, like, maybe selling out a show, or, like, seeing your album on a shelf in an Urban Outfitters… and the Grammys are so far above that. It’s very ridiculous.
I like dramatic and crazy, weird, ridiculous eyebrows but I know the majority of people don’t do their brows like me.
I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem’s new song about his kid – isn’t it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don’t like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff
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.
My family’s the best so to call and say, ‘I’m in a movie with Robin Williams,’ and they’re like, ‘That’s ridiculous.’ And I’m like, ‘Good, as long as you think that, too.’ Because as soon as you say, ‘I deserve this,’ it’s over.”
Anyone who’s 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.
One doesn’t want fashion to look ridiculous, silly, or out of step with the times – but you do want designers that make you think, that make you look at fashion differently. That’s how fashion changes. If it doesn’t change, it’s not looking forward. And that’s important to me.
I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, ‘Geez, this is ridiculous.’ You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man’s Led Zeppelin.
I like to find those shirts that they only made one of. That’s my approach to style. But my vintage T-shirt collection is a little ridiculous.
Marriage is ridiculous.
You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn’t mean anything to anybody.
You come out of doing that kind of side of electronic music, you’re gonna take that knowledge with you and not ignore it. That’d be ridiculous to spend 10 years on something and not use that as an influence.
I see that I have been engaged to Emily [Blunt] without ever asking her. The big question I had was, do you think I would ask her to marry me through ‘Hello’ magazine? Would I do something like that? Would she allow that to happen? It is completely ridiculous.
I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.
The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
I just have an endless well of ridiculous things that have happened to me.
On one level, of course, the notion of judging films or books or music against each other is completely ridiculous. Who’s to say ’12 Years A Slave’ is a better film than ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’? Or that one album in a certain genre is better than another in a completely different genre?
I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.
Don’t say I don’t get along with my teammates. I just don’t get along with some of the guys on the team.
I remember telling people I booked this job; they were like, ‘What is it called?’ I was like, ‘Peaky Blinders,’ and they were like, ‘What?’ It sounds ridiculous, but I like it because there’s an instant intrigue about the name.
I’ve learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says ‘That’s ridiculous’ you’re probably on the right track
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don’t do it. One day I’m gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That’s ridiculous, but it’s true. I always fight with wearing a beret.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
Throw your children in the surf and let them get used to it. They have to learn all about rips and tides and swimming between the flags and all that sort of stuff. I know that sounds ridiculous but it’s true.
I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It’s a little ridiculous.
Your country becomes funnier the further you are from it. I remember seeing Boris Johnson on the news when I was in Hong Kong, and he looked so much more ridiculous.
When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we’ve had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking, those are about the worst 10 years we’ve had since about the 1930s. I don’t blame the Internet for that – that would be ridiculous.
That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.
You can’t dispute the ridiculous. You can’t argue reasonably with evil.
It’s ridiculous what I do. I can’t believe in it – but I have to.
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.
There is no earthly reason why Walmart and McDonald’s and Walgreens and these other giant, profitable institutions should have one worker in need of public assistance. It’s ridiculous.
‘Zorn’ goes to some pretty ridiculous places, but the real comedy is coming from these little observations about life that are not as outlandish as some of the bigger moves in the story. This is a guy who has magical relics and fights weird monsters and is also dealing with very basic work and family things.
I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.
As far as getting work, no one thought I spoke English. It was absolutely ridiculous. I’d show up at a meeting and they’d be like, ‘Oh my God, you speak English! That’s so cool.’ They didn’t really know what to do with me.
I listen to somebody like Shawn Lane, and unfortunately he is no longer with us, but I hear him playing and I am like, ‘That is just absolutely ridiculous.’
Once you’re past the age of, say, 11, you should stop idolizing athletes. You look ridiculous wearing the jersey of a guy who is younger and wealthier than you are.
A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist.
It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
I’d rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
We have President-elect [Donald] Trump out there calling the CIA assessment that Russia was trying to help elect him ridiculous. He also questions – says he doesn’t believe the earlier findings of all 17 intelligence agencies that Russia was trying to get involved in our elections.
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
Basically I’m a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don’t translate while you are desperately trying to make them.
If you ask her to do things on command, like clap or walk, she just shuts down. She does not want to perform.
I’ve been called a race traitor, prejudiced about white people. It’s ridiculous… I have a really, really diverse crowd. Most comedy clubs appeal to white audiences. I have a very mixed crowd. I have a lot of visibility in the black audience.
The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.
And hope is like love…a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
I’ve done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.
I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I’m on stage, I’m at a microphone… it’s a joke!
Yeah, well, it’s what happens when we spoil the things we love. They don’t always understand the boundaries and their ridiculous wants can get us killed if we’re not careful. (Jaden)
I just don’t think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that’s intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn’t just look ridiculous.
Another goal that I have is to learn how to play the ukulele – should be fun – and to stop taking my clothes off for money. But I need money. That is a ridiculous goal. I’m gonna cross that one off. That’s stupid.
As ridiculous as I think the fashion and beauty industry is, I’m wildly obsessed with it.
I’m into everything. My iPod is very eclectic – if you kept it on shuffle, you’d be amazed. For example, I was forced to grow up on Dolly Parton. My mum was obsessed by her. She bought all this memorabilia for the front room. It’s ridiculous.
Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous.
Now, I’m fully aware that there is only one figure more pitiable, more ludicrous, more inherently ridiculous than a bad singer who keeps on singing, and that’s a bad singer who keeps on singing because he has issues.
To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion – that is a right. That is a freedom.
I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, “You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it.” And nobody did.
It’s curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I’m sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it’s absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.
It’s fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
I’ve found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It’s ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.
Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
I’m ridiculous, I’m ludicrous.
Credulity is always ridiculous.
I am disappointed when I don’t win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I’m on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I’ve reached the course, I’ll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn’t.
Many states have laws against cousin marriage, which I think are ridiculous – people should be allowed to make that choice.
I hate to say “found himself” – it sounds so ridiculous.
Our body awareness in the West is ridiculous.
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous – the ice of life is slippery.
But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings.
I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.
Lots of people hide behind social media to spread ridiculous rumours and cause problems where they don’t exist.
I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men’s polo shirt. We weren’t there, like, ready for war.
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.
People always want to think that because you’re not from a certain circumstance, you can’t relate. That’s ridiculous.
No one person can be above the ANC. He can’t be.
It was just wet, not stinky?
I do believe in monsters oddly enough. I think they’re under my bed. But aliens are ridiculous; monsters I think are real completely though.
Oppositions usually say ridiculous things and must embarrassingly then ditch untenable positions.
That’s one of the problems with the Zeppelin stuff. It sounds ridiculous on MP3. You can’t hear what’s there properly.
Strapping Young Lad is a vehicle for me to be wild and extroverted and ridiculous. It gives me the chance to say, ‘Look at me. I’m a heavy metal guy. I’m Rob Halford or Bruce Dickinson or whoever.’
For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization.
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet.
You can’t lie to God – it’s ridiculous.
To say, ‘Well, he’s following X person, so he believes all the things that this person believes’… I think that’s ridiculous.
My husband and I had the opportunity to write some stuff for other people. We both tried it. I think it lasted about two weeks, and we both felt ridiculous. It just didn’t work for us.
Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships – someone always wins.
At school, there was an annual school disco and I’d be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I’d arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised – I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.
People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That’s ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.
My fashion was not the best in the ’80s. I looked crazy as hell. I used to wear my pants tucked into my socks and karate handkerchiefs around my wrist. It was ridiculous, how I used to dress in the ’80s.
What happens is some of the characters I’ve played have voices that are so different from my own, that it would be ridiculous if I would dip in and out of that voice in between takes to ask for a coffee, or something. Or to gossip about whatever was going on.
A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It’s a girl thing.
It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That’s ridiculous.
Suggesting that just because someone who is on the telly has a superior moral viewpoint to someone who say, shelf stacks at Aldi is ridiculous.
I am the biggest klutz on set. I honestly don’t think I have ever been as klutzy as when I’m on set. People call me ‘Grace’ ironically because I’m not graceful. It’s ridiculous.
If we don’t act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.
It’s not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it’s mankind.
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One.
I’ve got so much money it’s ridiculous.
It’s my job to be ridiculous.
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.
I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.
I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul.
If it’s just screaming – and I know this sounds so ridiculous – that gets old. But sometimes when there’s literal chaos, it’s like being in a war zone, and that’s kind of exciting. You’re just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what’s going on.
Let me tell you now a man of my position can afford to look ridiculous at any time.
When I step back from any moment of crisis that I’ve ever had, I’m always struck by how humor and tragedy can kind of live in the same moment, holding hands together. How life can go from the ridiculous to the sublime to the tragic all in one breath.
The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you’re headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you’re going to head that way a while longer cause that’s just the kind of person you are.
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.
There has been this slightly naive and perhaps arrogant view that technology can completely reinvent the political system and the way that government and politics works, which is 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.
It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King’s Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.
[After the twins’ birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You can’t be afraid of, ‘Oh, I’m out of the public, then I’m going to have to make a comeback.’ It’s ridiculous. No.
In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.
I’ve never been a major smoker, but I think America’s view on weed is ridiculous. I mean – are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.
It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?
Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.
Whenever you see me, I’m on antique quaaludes.
We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It’s ridiculous. It’s that visibility. I’m confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.
The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.
I am trying to make sure that I don’t spend on ridiculous things, so that after all this YouTube thing goes, I’m not left there, like, ‘Uh oh, I have nothing.’
It is beyond ridiculous that wolves need to study a human or that they are capable of it.
It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It’s like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting “Cathy” and banging your head against a tree.
Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it’s like a kind of fever.
I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.
Every team did it. They’ll say, ‘You white boy, you ain’t gonna run on us today. This is ridiculous. Why are you giving offensive linemen the ball?’ All kinds of stuff like that you hear on the field, but I use that to my advantage. I kind of soaked it in, ate it up a little bit, because I enjoyed it.
Once the stories end up getting farfetched and ridiculous, I think that’s where superhero fatigue will really catch on.
Any set in the world, I feel ridiculous. There’s a lot of ridiculousness in my job. The people are the fun part. But, it’s not fun enough to do it for free.
All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.
If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.
Peter Joseph is asking the questions and proposing the possible solutions that we should be demanding from the elected leaders of this crazy world.
His brilliant analysis of this ridiculous system we’re operating under is one of the most important voices for change in this generation.
His brilliant analysis of this ridiculous system we’re operating under is one of the most important voices for change in this generation.
Jessica Seinfeld made a toast. She turned to the assembled guests. ‘And you are all so lucky to be part of Gwyneth’s world. Because this is the real deal. And she’s invited all of you good people in here. I would never do that.’
I have this ridiculous chip on my shoulder, having been a dancer, that I feel like I really ought to be able to do everything myself – but there are some things I very clearly cannot.
Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.
Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous.
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous.
The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It’s a global phenomenon.
I realized that I needed to know more about the business side of things. I don’t like feeling uneducated about things, and feeling uneducated about my own business felt ridiculous.
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what’s good for you is good for the wider civilization and rationalizing all these ridiculous conclusions based on this subconscious tendency to serve one’s self is a terribly inaccurate way to think.
Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.
I don’t agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn’t embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.
This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it.
My jet lag is getting a bit ridiculous. But, you know, it’s first-world problems. It’s a wonderful problem, ‘Oh I have to travel around the world; how awful.’
No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That’s an easy filter to put any story through.
I feel like every time I do a video I say I want to make it like a movie, I want to make it very entertaining. So I start to just scan in my brain for what I haven’t done before so I can do something unique and ridiculous, and what that song means.
My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It’s bad. I mean, it’s ridiculous.
The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It’s just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I’ve been trying to do all my life is to make great music.
The trick is for Divas to find what works for them. I’ve done some ridiculous stuff in my career, but there’s still nothing that’s gotten a reaction as big as me skipping around the ring.
I think my work is optimistic – as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end of the day it’s about the hope that something will go right, and the constant wishing for a world where things might start to make sense.
There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.
I think the tabloids have become utterly ridiculous. When they just write on pure speculation, that’s pretty sick.
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it’s just kind of ridiculous.
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.
You know…my flower…I’m responsible for her. And she’s so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
You’ve seen the IPL and the Pakistani crowds, they’re almost ridiculous. They’re very loud, they love the game, the passion for the game out there is immense.
I don’t want to go to the designer that everyone is going to. I want to find a designer that maybe no one’s paying attention to… And I’m not afraid to wear something crazy and ridiculous.
First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I’ve never been a big champion of Ford.
It’s ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.
That is ridiculous,” she said. The king agreed. “Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.
I’m pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I’m not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off.
The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one’s own misery. ‘That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?’
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine….How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex.
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.
If I’m two pounds heavier, I’m fat. If I’m skinnier, I’m sick. It’s ridiculous. And that’s not coming from agents or designers.
People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.
I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous.
I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.
I’ve always covered up in the sun and it seemed so ridiculous that I developed cancer despite taking precautions.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Almost every cartoonist, when he’s sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he’s drawing. But when I would write a story – I know it’s going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile – I would, in a way, start living it.
The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that’s just beyond anything we’ve ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.
Those who vote for the ANC will be blessed on earth and heaven
John McCain is now openly endorsing the policies of the Bush-Cheney White House and promising to actually continue the same policies over again? Hey, I believe in recycling but that’s ridiculous.
Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn’t even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How ridiculous is that?
A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.
It’s so ridiculous, I can barely stop. I can hardly breathe, you make me wanna scream. You’re so fabulous, you’re so good to me baby, baby.
Best player? For me, it’s Paul Scholes. He’ll do ridiculous things in training like say, “You see that tree over there?” – it’ll be 40 yards away – “I’m going to hit it”. And he’ll do it. Everyone at the club considers him the best.
You’re more than Dauntless,” he says in a low voice. “But if you want to be just like them, hurling yourself into ridiculous situations for no reason and retaliating against your enemies without any regard for what’s ethical, go right ahead. I thought you were better than that, but maybe I was wrong.
I’ve learned to not care. There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.
Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that’s possible, but that’s certainly not my intention.
I think I got a lot of my ‘funny’ DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.
I just look for interesting supporting-biggish supporting parts, and try to do one a year, and that’s my limit. Some women can do it and that’s fantastic, but I can’t. You make choices as a wife and mother, don’t you? You can’t have it all. I don’t care what it looks like.
I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom’s like, you’re driving me crazy – do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.
I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents’ farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
It’s 2015, and I’m the first female coach in any of the major sports. That’s ridiculous!
I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous!
He’s disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world.
At this point, you are so far away from what you really are, it is ridiculous. The good news is that every step you take within brings you more in touch with that which you really are.
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men’s badness, which is impossible.
I think Cate Blanchett always gets it right. She seems very natural and wears interesting but not ridiculous clothes – she seems to push the boundaries just enough.
I’m the oldest I’ve ever been, right now.
I’m not one of these guys who says ‘Now I’m on a really hot show. Better quit soon before I get labeled.’ That’s the most ridiculous notion I’d ever heard.
Oh, all those ridiculous people with zero talent who spend their lives making sure everyone knows their name. Those stupid, stupid people.
I’ve always felt it’s ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You’re my friend, you’re my wife, you’re my girlfriend, you’re my co-worker. ‘This is your box, and you’re not allowed to stray outside of it.’
This archaic idea – that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural – will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
For God’s sake (I never was more serious) don’t make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.
I think Obamacare has now taken over almost from regulation, which is ridiculous what’s happening with overregulation, as the biggest single problem for opening and keeping businesses going.
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!
My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an ’86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you’d ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.
There’s no doubt that ‘Lion’ is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were… they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.
God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country.
Skiing is ridiculous.
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.
I’m not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it’s ridiculous to think that a female director can’t direct men. That makes no sense to me.
