Ridiculous Quotes · Page 34

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.

— Bob Geldof

Kids are ridiculous these days, when we were young, we took spelling tests, not pregnancy tests.

— Anonymous

It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage.

— Jens Spahn

That [Pagani] Zonda, really! It’s like a lion in orange dungarees. Kind of fierce, but ridiculous all at the same time.

— Jeremy Clarkson

Oppositions usually say ridiculous things and must embarrassingly then ditch untenable positions.

— Michael Portillo

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

— Donald Judd

Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Plato

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered.…

— Laura Prepon

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he…

— James Payn

If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn…

— Barack Obama

Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against…

— Ian Fleming

I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was…

— Rutger Hauer

Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to…

— Yoko Ono

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is…

— Peter Steele

Starting now, you're just starting to see a glimmer of what the idea of West will mean. So right now, at this…

— Kanye West

Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that…

— Amy Sedaris

“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to…

— Laura Kipnis

When I was a TV director working on Judd Apatow's show Undeclared. I was surrounded by so many young people. People like…

— Greg Mottola

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have…

— John Calvin

Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I…

— Jimmy Carter

At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a…

— Chelsea Handler

But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet…

— Richard Rodriguez

I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have…

— Hank Green

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

— Gertrude Stein

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't…

— Robert Musil

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— L. David Mech

I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with…

— Justin Hartley

It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

— Flip Wilson

Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax jet if I'm opening a supermarket for him.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

— Ambrose Bierce

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

— Alan Moore

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

— Drew Curtis

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

— Anonymous

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

— Dorothy Parker

That is Obama's signature move: Invent people who are saying ridiculous things and then encourage the audience to laugh at these made-up…

— Ann Coulter

In terms of TV shows, if you're a public figure, we've all been asked to do some sort of ridiculous show at…

— Ben Fogle