Ridiculous Quotes - Page 14

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

There's just something about me and my persona that's a little bit bigger than life and ridiculous at times.

I know, I've never had boobs before!

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped in sufficient profundity that they take on a kind of plausibility.

The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.

We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in a novel. That probably accounts for what some have called the book's "sweeping" feel, but I don't know that I set out to be cinematic. I wouldn't know how to do that in a novel, specifically.

Fact-checking is a terrible way to report on Donald Trump's lying . It's like we enter into a dialogue with him. It's as though, he says "A," and we check "A," and it gives it no context. Saying that he's "misstating" is an even worse way of covering it. That's NPR's ridiculous policy of not calling his lies "lies." It's really destructive.

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.

The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money.

There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.

I used to enjoy doing silly walks on the street with my friends. Like, you know, you're walking, and then you break out in something completely ridiculous, to kind of spook out the person walking by you. I can't really do that anymore.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!