Laughable Quotes - Page 2

• It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

  Libba Bray

  Tragedy, Comedy

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Laughter, Wall, Army

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.48

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• Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Believe, Taken, People

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• The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ideas, Political, Would Be

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• Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Careers, Might, Ridiculous

  "Joaquin Phoenix Stuns 'Letterman' Audience With Amy Winehouse-Like Appearance", www.foxnews.com. February 12, 2009.

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• Go to humorous events at comedy clubs and watch laughable movies.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Humorous, Events, Watches

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• As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Simple, Light

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Media, Doe, Form

  Donald Phillip Verene (2013). “Moral Philosophy and the Modern World”, p.119, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

  Jon Meacham

  Enemy, Sometimes, Failing

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• Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Rogues, Cunning, Devilish

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• Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Years, Age

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• People like the Mormons and the Scientologists, who I think should combine and make a Mormontologist because what they believe is just so out there it's just laughable.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Bill Maher Gets Ridiculous with Religulous". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

  Herman Melville

  Laughter, Men, Thinking

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

  Henry Rollins

  Nerves, Looks, Moral

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• I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky.... And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle on its back. Because the world is only 5000 years old, so man and the dinosaurs had to coexist, and, of course, we rode them. A theory I thought laughable at the age of eight when I saw it on THE FLINTSTONES!

  Bill Maher

  Men, Years, Museums

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• The late '90s were a really bad time for people trying to be rock stars, you know what I mean? It seemed like everyone was a one-hit wonder on the radio. We had friends who had a hit single on the radio and sold 500,000 records, and then they couldn't get arrested a year later. I had this feeling at the time that that was not possible anymore, so the idea of becoming the biggest band in the country—it seemed laughable. I felt that having those sort of ambitions was foolish, because there was no way that was going to be possible. If you saw it that way, you were just deluding yourself.

  Ben Gibbard

  Country, Ambition, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Strangely, from a life-change standpoint, I sold the company I was running and got divorced in the same month. And so there I was, at home, and I'm not the CEO. I took a few months thinking about what I wanted to do. When the first call came in about running a company owned by Deutsche Telekom, I thought it was laughable and really not something I'd do. I took the meeting mainly because the headhunter I knew. At first I thought I was just helping her fill out the roster, but then I dug into it.

  John J. Legere

  Running, Home, Thinking

  "The T-Mobile CEO who calls his competition ‘dumb and dumber’ explains how he doubled customers in 4 years, and how a group of employees made him cry". Interview with Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. October 7, 2016.

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• I put it out before the American people, got 306 electoral college votes…270 which you need, that was laughable. We got 306 because people came out and voted like they’ve never seen before so that’s the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, College, People

  "Here Are Your Highlights of Today’s Trump Press Meltdown" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. February 16, 2017.

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• The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

  Peter Diamandis

  Ideas, Suvs, Pounds

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• Of course it's contrived, but once you know how its contrived, you can understand the editorial viewpoint. CNN, for example, when you see where they're really coming from, you can subtract their bias, and get some sort of facts. Sometimes the amount of bias that is imposed in these things is so laughable that it gives you an extra layer of entertainment.

  Frank Zappa

  Cnn, Giving, Viewpoints

  Source: afka.net

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• A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Happiness, Laughter, Issues

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• Nietzsche's 'perspectivalism' was expressly directed against the 'laughable juxtaposition of "man and world"'. But 'absolutist' accounts, too, typically try to demonstrate that human beings are integral components of the world these accounts articulate - that, for example, we are simply material bodies subject to the same natural processes as everything else.

  David E. Cooper

  Men, Trying, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody.

  Amanda Palmer

  Powerful, Men, Guy

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My haters are laughable punks, my supporters the greatest people that ever lived.

  Ted Nugent

  People, Punk, My Haters

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they're embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools or by our ridiculous trial lawyer culture that other countries find laughable?

  Ann Coulter

  Country, School, Long

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