Top 25 Ridiculous Quotes of 463 - Page 2

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.

Jim Carrey

Want, Path, Ridiculous

Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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.

Hilaire Belloc

Ridiculous, Politician, Acquaintance

Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”

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

Garrison Keillor

Ridiculous, Mortality

Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.128, Penguin

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Frida Kahlo

Tragedy, Ridiculous, Ridiculous Things

Frida Kahlo, Carlos Monsiváis, Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño, Anahuacalli (Museum) (2004). “Frida Kahlo: un homenaje”, Artes De Mexico Y Del Mundo S.A.

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

Yves Saint Laurent

Expression, Ridiculous, Be Careful

Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

Thomas Ligotti

Peculiar, Ridiculous

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

Jean Rhys

Littles, Matter, Ridiculous

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Profound, Ridiculous, Left

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.43, Vintage

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

Olive Schreiner

Reality, Two Sides, Ridiculous

Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.276, The Floating Press

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

Mr. Krabs

Guests, Ridiculous, Deny

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

George Bernard Shaw

Ice, Ridiculous, Life Is

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3093, e-artnow

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

Socrates

Ridiculous, Uncertain, Certainty

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

Roberto Cavalli

Labels, Ridiculous

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

Jennifer Lawrence

Ridiculous, Stairs

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.

Jean Shepherd

White, Cost, Ridiculous

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.

David Chase

Mafia, Ridiculous, Sopranos