Ludicrously Quotes

#1. Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Germaine Greer

#2. I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

Maria Semple

#3. It is an inconvenience, being located in a city where taxes are ludicrously high, where you pay twice your annual income to rent an apartment that could easily be carried on a commercial airline flight.

Dave Barry

#4. Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.

Kevin Brownlow

#5. More pre-Christmas revelers on the Friday-night Tube: girls in ludicrously tiny glittering dresses risking hypothermia for a fumble with the boy from Packaging.

Robert Galbraith

#6. They were simply meant to be.
He understood this was a ludicrously romantic notion.
And he didn't give a fuck.

Kristen Ashley

#7. Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it?

Torgny Lindgren

#8. If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.

Simone Weil

#9. In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect

Heather O'Neill

#10. I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

Jilly Cooper

#11. Friend, we're traveling together.
Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you
one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken.
I'm like an ant that's gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out
a grain that's way too big.

Rumi

#12. All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.

Julian Simon

#13. I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

William Allingham

#14. Nessus sprawled bonelessly in his couch. He looked ridiculously, ludicrously comfortable.

Larry Niven

#15. Todd and Larry were Quinn's people. They were clean-limbed and pretty and, for a man of my age, ludicrously youthful.

John Le Carre

#16. On the opposite side, the mannequins stood like witnesses. They were serious and ludicrously stylish. It was hard to shake the feeling that they were watching everything.

Markus Zusak

#17. The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

John Osborne

#18. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.

Sol LeWitt

#19. The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

Oswald Chambers

#20. Nathan called all shiksas Maria
the explanation seemed as ludicrously simple as that.

Philip Roth

#21. What a reflection on yourself to despise those who admire you! That said, one's usually of two minds: 1. You're ludicrously overdoing it; 2. You don't know the half of it.

Eva Brann

#22. Followers, followers. Sometimes, with some things, it's best to keep your tally down.

Donna Lynn Hope

#23. If I walk into a store, I'm going to buy the best jacket or the best item in the store, hands down.

Theophilus London

#24. A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? 'Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man ... only 500?'

Meredith Willson

#25. I was too quiet and different. I didn't go out and party, I stayed home and read a book.

Micalea Smeltzer

#26. Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.

Anthony Marais