Ridiculous Quotes - Page 31

• We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• I've been meeting with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino for years, trying to figure out how to fix the concert industry. We're all so overpaid. It's ridiculous. People stopped going to concerts because they can't afford them. The Rolling Stones are charging $650 per ticket! That just makes me speechless. I love the Stones, but I won't be attending.

  Kid Rock

  Years, People, Trying

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• Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

  Joe Rogan

  Reality, Way, Nonsensical

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• I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Boys, Thinking, Differences

  "Twilight Scribe Melissa Rosenberg On Sopranos-esque Penoza and Jessica Jones vs. Wonder Woman". Interview with Jen Yamato, movieline.com. November 17, 2011.

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• People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

  Paul Ryan

  Winning, People, Reform

  "Fussbudget" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. August 6, 2012.

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• Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.

  Adam Savage

  Mean, People, Might

  "Adam Savage, a MythBuster's creative force" by Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. May 18, 2013.

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• Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Mean, Sneezing, Literature

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• All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Purity, Genre

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• When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Costumes, Bees, Cannes

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• I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Looks, Married

  "The funny side of the street". Interview with Rick Lyman, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002.

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• 'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

  Rob Sheffield

  World, Superstar, Singles

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• Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

  Grace Slick

  Rocks, Years, Singing

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• My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.

  Grace Slick

  Encouraging, Parent, Would Be

  "Summer of Love: 40 Years Later / Grace Slick" by, www.sfgate.com. May 20, 2007.

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• The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

  L. Neil Smith

  Hate, Lying, World

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• Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Gay, Different, Firsts

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• I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.

  John Stamos

  Exercise, Guy, Plot

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• But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Book, Ideas, Shapes

  Henry Morton Stanley (2002). “How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Funny, Men, Years

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Lying, Humorous, Mean

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

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• I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

  Tracey Ullman

  Advertising Agencies, Advertisements, Offers

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• In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Body, Study

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

  Rachel Weisz

  Home, Dying, Planes

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• For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

  Kristen Wiig

  Success Of Others

  "Interview: Kristen Wiig vs. Jason Sudeikis". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.newsweek.com. May 29, 2011.

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• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  Flip Wilson

  Opportunity, Say Anything, Negative

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• My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts, that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!

  Kate Winslet

  Stars, Responsibility, Thinking

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

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