Ridiculous Quotes - Page 3

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

See the ridiculous in everything.

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?

Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

Marriage is ridiculous.

The reality is you do not know exactly what is likely to occur tomorrow. Lifetime can be a ridiculous trip, and practically nothing is confirmed.

I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!

I don't do match cuts really. That's a ridiculous thing to say - I do. But we always explore how we can propel a scene, and that's including dialogue, without doing match cuts. Because the audience is really willing to accept a lot of discontinuity.

When I was in London for The Brits recently I read that I had asked for a Jacuzzi in the dressing room - how ridiculous is that?

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

And I love Jennifer Lawrence. She's a total fox. And such a good actress. It's ridiculous.

Comparing Isco to Zidane isn't ridiculous. He is very close to Zidane in terms of ability, they have a lot of similarities. Zidane is obviously in a better position to judge, and he said Isco isn't there yet but could come close in the future.

It is ridiculous, frighteningly ridiculous to make wars in the name of peace.

I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.