Ridiculous Quotes - Page 11

• It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.

  James Nesbitt

  Lying, Horrible

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Daughter, Sheep, President

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• The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

  Whit Stillman

  "Fictional character: Nick Smith". "Metropolitan", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• I am the biggest klutz on set. I honestly don't think I have ever been as klutzy as when I'm on set. People call me 'Grace' ironically because I'm not graceful. It's ridiculous.

  Laura Marano

  Thinking, People, Grace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

  Myron Scholes

  Home, People, Kind

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• I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Taken, Home

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• "We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Children, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.516

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• Anyhow, there simply isnt enough room in the museums Fishes Hall, so weve decided to pretend to the public that a whale is actually a mammal without any legs. Its pathetically ridiculous-I mean to say, just look at the thing, its a gigantic fish if I ever saw one-but mums the word! In my experience the public will believe just about anything, so long as you write it down on a little piece of card.

  Gideon Defoe

  Believe, Mean, Writing

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• We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.

  Adora Svitak

  Blow, Years, Giving

  "It’s Not Girls’ Fault" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2011.

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• I can't watch shows like 'The X Factor,' for instance. I just squirm for the people involved, for the way they're being used. It's the cruellest, most ridiculous show on television. It's ruined music, ruined everything.

  John Simm

  People, Watches, Television

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• If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.

  Josh Billings

  Animal, Reason, Ifs

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• A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Errors, Grace

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• Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

  Bill Gates

  Confusing

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• I really try as hard as I can on the show. If people can't see my face, if they can't see my sweat beads or at least that I'm struggling, that I'm not just pretending or going through the motions, then who can blame them for thinking that it's some kind of ridiculous piss-take?

  John Maus

  Struggle, Thinking, Sweat

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• IMDB is ridiculous... First of all, they had me down as my height being 5ft 7ins. I'm 5ft 10ins. But now they've got me down as 6ft 1ins and three quarters. They also have me down as doing Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I wish they had me down as doing Francis Ford Coppola's next film. That would be a great rumour.

  Skandar Keynes

  Wish, Dawn, Would Be

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I first heard about Beverly Hills Chihuahua, I thought, no. This, this is ridiculous. And then you read the script and you close the script and you go, "They aren't going to be able to do that with real dogs. How are they going to do that?" You're going to see the strings. But they did.

  George Lopez

  Dog, Real, Beverly Hills

  "George Lopez Gives the Lowdown on Beverly Hills Chihuahua". Interview with Brian Gallagher, www.movieweb.com. February 27, 2009.

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• The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.

  Jules Renard

  Letters, Poor, No Money

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.245, Tin House Books

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• At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Views, Years

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.454, Northwestern University Press

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• For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

  Albert Camus

  Power, Men, Practice

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• It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  History, Doubt, Earth

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• One would appear ridiculous who would say, that it is only probable the sun will rise to-morrow, or that all men must die; thoughit is plain we have no further assurance of these facts than what experience affords us.

  David Hume

  Men, Experience, Sun

  David Hume (1963). “The Philosophy of David Hume”

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• What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.

  Michael Faraday

  Dog, Men, Average

  Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.542, IET

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• It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.

  Alice Miller

  Summer, Running, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.16, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another

  John Ashbery

  Speech, Lost, Accents

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.38, Ardent Media

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• It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

  Bob Geldof

  Mean, Talking, Giving

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