Ridiculous Quotes

Let me tell you now a man of my position can afford to look ridiculous at any time.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.

The clown has great importance as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We should put the emphasis on the rediscovery of our own individual clown, the one that has grown-up within us and which society does not allow us to express.

The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

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.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

I've learned to not care. There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

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

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

...The people love him. So how can we condemn him?

It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.

The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

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

I’m pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I’m not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off.

You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can.

The ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back.

The ANC is more important than the Constitution.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

I was going to come in and push you down the stairs.

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 joke.

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.