Ridiculous Quotes - Page 5

• Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

  Milan Kundera

  Butterfly, Wind, Illusion

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• A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never entertained the feeling myself but knew that it meant never having to say you're sorry. It was a many-splendored thing. Love was a rose and a hammer. Both blind and all-seeing, it made the world go round.

  David Sedaris

  Love, Sorry, Rose

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• If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Opinion, Angry, Ifs

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Numbers, Trying, Demand

  "Neil Gaiman Talks DOCTOR WHO Episode “Nightmare in Silver,” Evolving the Cybermen, Creating the Cybermites, His View on the TARDIS and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2013.

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• 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.

  John Darnielle

  Want, Way, Causes

  "Recover From the Damage: Reviewing John Darnielle's Debut Novel, Wolf in White Van" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. September 23, 2014.

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• 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.

  Mika

  Mean, Blue, People

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• The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I don't know whether the exploits of Alexander and Caesar really surpass the resolution of a beautiful young woman, bred up in the light and commerce of our society, who still keeps herself whole. There is no doing so hard as not doing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Ideas, Light

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

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• Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Relation

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

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• Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

  Aesop

  Character, Doe, Assuming

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.54, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Beautiful, Men, Roles

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.219, e-artnow

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• I'm funnier now because I'm braver and less full of hate, so everything is even more ridiculous than it was before.

  Roseanne Barr

  Hate

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• A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Hazards, Engagement, Earth

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.

  Max Beckmann

  Blessed, Philosophical, Eye

  Max Beckmann, Guggenheim Museum Soho (1996). “Max Beckmann in exile”, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum

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• We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.

  Jesse Helms

  Country, Hate, School

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• Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

  Harry Graham

  Aunt, Sublime, Steps

  'Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes' (1899) 'Equanimity'.

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• Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

  Mortimer Collins

  Religion, Church, Deities

  Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”

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• In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, America, People

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.84, Crown Forum

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• I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.

  John C. Reilly

  Drama, Thinking, Joy

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• We know today about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape -- it's ridiculous! This has got to be taught in the schools. It's got to be taught in kindergarten. That's when kids should first get the idea that the most important thing in your life is your health and your body.

  Jack LaLanne

  School, Kids, Tired

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.

  Mark Oliver

  Crush, Struggle, Past

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• Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Men, Essentials, Finding Happiness

  "As 30 melhores entrevistas da Playboy: agosto 1975-agosto 2005" by Luiz Rivoiro, (p. 132), 2005.

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• It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Criticism, Criticize

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.238

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• It is beyond ridiculous that wolves need to study a human or that they are capable of it.

  L. David Mech

  Needs, Study, Humans

  "International Wolf Center Nominates Picoult's Lone Wolf for Scat Award". March 08, 2012.

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• 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.

  Hank Green

  Horse, Thinking, Awful

  YouTube Channel "vlogbrothers"/"Thoughts from Places: On a Horse", www.youtube.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the next morning. That's not how acting works. You can do anything to me as an actor; I'm a very resilient guy. Just don't rush me. If you ask me to do it immediately with no time to prepare, I know you have contempt for actors.

  Holt McCallany

  Morning, Guy, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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