Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Horace

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Jennifer Lawrence

I was going to come in and push you down the stairs...

Elvis Costello

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

Eugene Ionesco

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,

Jean Cocteau

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

Stephen Harper

It sounds superficially appealing, but if you think about it for 30 seconds it's a ridiculous plan.

It was a roller-coaster ride for me mentally,

Brad Penny

It's kind of ridiculous that you get a 10-game suspension for steroids and a six-game suspension for milk.

Brad Penny

It's ridiculous that they worry about stuff like that. It shows (the Marlins) don't know anything about the game.

It's nice. I didn't really like riding the bus.

Fred Berry

Eighty-seven-thousand riders may not be as many as other areas, but that's still 87,000 riders.

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.

Moliere

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

Idris Elba

I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

Grace Jones

...it's ridiculous for a woman to say that she's not attracted to other women. That's completely false...

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

Tom Boonen

I don't want to look for any excuses, some riders were just better than me.

How long will all that take? We must get rid of the tax lien.

Barbra Streisand

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Howard Dean

There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble.

Miguel Indurain

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

Hilaire Belloc

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

Henry Fielding

The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation

Norman Reedus

I'm so fortunate, it's ridiculous.

Shane MacGowan

Petitions are ridiculous.

Garrison Keillor

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

John Flanagan

You're not built for riding, either," Horace added. "I'd say more saddle sore than homesick." Svenal sighed ruefully, shifting his buttocks for the twentieth time to find a more comfortable spot. "It's true," he said. "I've been discovering parts of my backside I never knew existed.

Lindsey Vonn

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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