Ludicrous Quotes
98 quotes by 91 authors
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Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean,…
— Paul Hawken
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Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to…
— Mark Leyner
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Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!
— Heinrich Böll
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I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.
— Shalom Harlow
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that…
— Sacha Baron Cohen
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It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same…
— Terry Goodkind
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People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.
— Joss Stone
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of…
— Ian Mckellen
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This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
— Minnie Maddern Fiske
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JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct…
— Ambrose Bierce
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ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.
— Mark Twain
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In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as…
— Robert Briffault
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The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist…
— Georg Baselitz
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To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of…
— Jodi Picoult
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The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in…
— Daryl Hannah
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You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.
— Noel Gallagher
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Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
— Germaine Greer
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I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who…
— NeNe Leakes
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Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
— John Lydon
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