Ridiculous Quotes
1165 quotes by 850 authors
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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
— Rowan Atkinson
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in…
— Enid Bagnold
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I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end…
— Christian Bale
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore de Balzac
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving…
— Bono
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
— Bono
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public…
— Bono
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I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly.…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
— Ray Bradbury
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Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work…
— Richard Branson
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when…
— Lenny Bruce
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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
— George Burns
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What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about…
— Steve Buscemi
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When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a…
— David Byrne
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving…
— Albert Camus
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I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the…
— John le Carre
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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
— Fred Allen
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