The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
I can't watch shows like 'The X Factor,' for instance. I just squirm for the people involved, for the way they're being… — John Simm Copy Share Image
Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to… — Marshall Herskovitz Copy Share Image
I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
I've established myself as a proper artist. And it's ridiculous when anyone questions my credibility - I've had four number one singles… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
“Mark this one thing my boy: never, never, never can a man make himself ridiculous in the eyes of a woman by… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to… — David Berg Copy Share Image
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Facion goes in cycles but nothing has changed. When it's ridiculous it's more ridiculous than ever, and when it's wonderful it becomes… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Availability of the best also is limited in our culture. And it's also extremely expensive. It's ridiculous. A kilogram of rose oil… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
Daisy smiled and said, "Jay Berry, you won't die. You may think you will, but you won't. In a day or two,… — Wilson Rawls Copy Share Image
We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I walked by a dry cleaner at 3 am, and there was a sign: "Sorry, we're closed" You don't have to be… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
When people would ask me what I was doing, I'd be like, 'It's a horror film.' 'What is it about?' 'You'll just… — David Robert Mitchell Copy Share Image
The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair… — Lou Dobbs Copy Share Image
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
That stupid saying "What you don't know can't hurt you" is ridiculous. What you don't know can kill you. If you don't… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
Google is ridiculous. Everyone uses Google, and that's why Google has such an attitude. Because it's so popular, it's conceited. I mean,… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a Hollywood movie star. Obviously, my… — Ben Daniels Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I always at least try to come from some sort of human place no matter how ridiculous the character is. That's really… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image