Ridiculous Quotes

I was going to come in and push you down the stairs.

Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

He's disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world.

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

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!

I couldn't believe it. That was the first time I had ever seen somebody celebrate for a whole 40-second clock. That was ridiculous.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

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.

They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

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.

If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?

This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

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.

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.

Your God is the best God. In fact, he's the only God. All other Gods are ridiculous, made up rubbish. Not yours though. Yours is real.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

Marriage is ridiculous.

You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

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.

Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

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?

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.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

See the ridiculous in everything.

I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

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 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!

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.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

The war on Christmas. This is the most ridiculous right wing talking point I have ever lived through.The idea is that liberals want to get rid of Christmas.