Best 303 quotes in «ridiculous quotes» category

The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.

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.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

There's always the day where you do the effort noises, so there's a lot of grunts, huffing and puffing, pretending like you're hopping over things, pretending like you're getting hit, and pretending like you're kicking. If any of that was recorded, it's some of the silliest stuff I'll ever do, as an actor, but it's fun and liberating, in a way, 'cause no one can see me. I videotape myself doing it sometimes, to send to my friends just to remind us how ridiculous our jobs are.

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.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

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.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.

They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.

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.

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.

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

This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to create it. You have to see it. You have to seize it and you have to move in to get it, so those lenses are just an escape of some sort or a shield.

This is something called "walking meditation." The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be 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.

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour

To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

Trick names are so ridiculous!

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's 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?

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.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

Whenever you see me, I'm on antique quaaludes.