Ridiculous Quotes

• As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.

  

  Katherine Losse
  • Support
  • Engineering
  • Designer

• 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.

  

  Deon Cole
  • Fashion
  • Crazy
  • Pants

• That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Difficult
  • Rebel
  • Ridiculous

• If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Care
  • Fame
  • Ridiculous

• An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • School
  • Objects
  • Old Man

• I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Talk
  • Rights
  • Treatment

• How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Ridiculous
  • Gangsters
  • KGB

• 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.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Picture

• 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.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Paint

• The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Ridiculous
  • Finds
  • Intelligent Man

• It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Action
  • Courage
  • Ridiculous

• Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.

  

  Anna Biller
  • Women
  • Ridiculous
  • Requirements

• Now, I’m not even saying that girls shouldn’t have princesses in their lives, the archetype in and of itself is not innately wrong, but there should be more options to choose from. So that was my intent, to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to paint an entire gender of heroes with one superficial brush.

  

  David Trumble
  • Princess
  • Superficial
  • Brush

• I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.

  

  Regis Philbin
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Doctors

• Don't be ridiculous. Heritage does not equal destiny.

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Destiny
  • Ridiculous
  • Heritage

• Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

  

  Charles Ludlam
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Defense
  • Average
  • Foolish

• Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Opinion
  • Values
  • Boys

• The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Age
  • Financial
  • Crime

• Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Pencils
  • Closing
  • Slap

• 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.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plant
  • Notion
  • Illegal

• 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.

  

  William Clark Green
  • School
  • Growing
  • Medical

• 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.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Choices
  • Succeed
  • Failing

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

  

  Barry Webster
  • Source
  • Ridiculous
  • Sensible

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