Ridiculous Quotes - Page 35

• I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.

  Anne Lamott

  Adorable, Sick, Laughing

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• After all the thousand times I’ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?...I could see it in your eyes, that you honestly believed that I didn’t want you anymore. The most absurd, ridiculous concept—as if there were any way that I could exist without needing you!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Eye, Moon

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• I should have warned her about your habit of never doing what you're told." Jace squinted at her. "Are those Isabelle's clothes? They look ridiculous on you." "I could point out that you burned my clothes." -Jace and Clary pg. 63

  Cassandra Clare

  Should Have, Clothes, Looks

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• Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And what about you?" This time, it was Callie who spoke, her own pent-up energy releasing in anger, and the men turned as one to look at her, surprised that she and found her voice. "What about you and your idiotic pland to somehow restore my honor by playing guns out in the middle of nowhere with OXFORD?" She said the baron's name in disdain. "Like children? Of all the ridiculous, unnecessary, thoughtless, MALE things to do...who even FIGHTS duels anymore?!

  Sarah MacLean

  Brother, Children, Fighting

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• Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

  Jules Renard

  Humor, Looks

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.37, Tin House Books

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• So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Moving, Reality, Serenity

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• What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

  Thomas Bernhard

  Doctors, Said, Incapacity

  Thomas Bernhard (2010). “Gargoyles: A Novel”, p.180, Vintage

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• Yeah, well, it’s what happens when we spoil the things we love. They don’t always understand the boundaries and their ridiculous wants can get us killed if we’re not careful. (Jaden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Want, Boundaries, Yeah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.614, Macmillan

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• "Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  "Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, ch. 4, 1871.

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• We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Lying, Writing

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• Because it gives him and excuse to be around her--without making it look like he gave in first. That way, he can still seem manly." "That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly. "Guys do ridiculous things for love.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Giving, Guy

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy Complete Series”, p.1341, Penguin UK

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• This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

  Jim Butcher

  Knights, Games, Looks

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3353, Penguin

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• Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

  China Mieville

  Ideas, Fantastic, Pretending

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• That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Rose, Spirit Bound

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.968, Penguin

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• She blinked. "Hmm? Oh, don't care. What did Anubis look like to you?" "What did... he looked like a guy. So?" "A good-looking guy, or a slobbering dog-headed guy?" "I guess... Not the dog-headed guy." "I knew it!" Sadie pointed at me as if she'd won an argument. "Good-looking. I knew it!" And with a ridiculous grin, she spun around and skipped into the house. My sister, as I may have mentioned, is a little strange.

  Rick Riordan

  Dog, House, Guy

  "The Red Pyramid". Book by Rick Riordan, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Steinbeck

  Romance, Dachshunds, Impossible

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• Her hair is ridiculous," I said. "I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.

  John Green

  Mean, Hair, People

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.46, A&C Black

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• It’ll probably be brutal, too. They might even feed you to the dog. He doesn’t have a dog. Yeah, well, he might get one just to feed you to it. She’d never been the kind of person to let something as ridiculous as rational logic interfere with her fear.’ (Alix)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Might, Logic

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.50, Macmillan

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• If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of Court Governments, whose habited policy is pretence for taxation, places, and offices.

  Thomas Paine

  Ocean, Thinking, Reflection

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• The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.

  Steven Moffat

  Impossible Things, Years, Miracle

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• Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.

  Daniel Handler

  Lying, Sometimes

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• That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Glorious Life, Curves, Perfection

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.63, Virginia Woolf

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• When in doubt, be ridiculous.

  Sherwood Smith

  Doubt, When In Doubt

  "Remalna's Children". Book by Sherwood Smith, November 19, 2011.

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• I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Lying, I Realized

  Arthur Miller (1994). “Death of a Salesman”, p.78, Heinemann

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• Charlotte leaned forward across the table. “The Dark Sisters never mentioned what use they intended to make of your abilities, did they?” “You know about the Magister.” Tessa said. “They said they were preparing me for him.” “For him to do what?” Will asked. “Eat you for dinner?” Tessa shook her head. “To – to marry me, they said.” “To marry you?” Jessamine was openly scornful. “That’s ridiculous. They were probably going to blood sacrifice you and didn’t want you to panic.” (page 78)

  Cassandra Clare

  Sacrifice, Dark, Blood

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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