Ridiculousness Quotes

#1. They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousness of the industrial life.

John Steinbeck

#2. To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred, or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditability.

Kurt Cobain

#3. You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

Alex Kapranos

#4. My golden rules for looking good are to moisturise to ridiculousness with a really rich moisturiser. And I always take my make-up off before going to bed.

Twiggy

#5. ...his ridiculousness was a form of vitality.

Rachel Kushner

#6. He could sense the ridiculousness of life even as it tore the guts out of him. She saw that now. And death lay coiled in the dark between the perception and the pain.

Janet Fitch

#7. Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.

Sherwood Smith

#8. I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

Robin Williams

#9. I feel like I'm supposed to make some comment to underscore the ridiculousness of it all, but honestly? It's sort of nice not to have to be cynical for a change. I guess it feels like I'm a part of something.

Becky Albertalli

#10. The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

Rachel Sklar

#11. We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

Billy Childish

#12. Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and merely underline my own ridiculousness by their very beauty.

Fernando Pessoa

#13. I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.

Cate Blanchett

#14. But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding.

Amy Engel

#15. I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music ... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

Kaskade

#16. Are you serious? This is some Rylan Star League ridiculousness.

Michael R. Underwood

#17. 116. To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred and valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditably.

Kurt Cobain

#18. There's also something about ageing and the concomitant awareness of the fleeting nature of existence that tends to make you less worried about being ridiculous, and less judgemental about the quality of ridiculousness in others.

Tom Cox

#19. There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.

Elizabeth Berg

#20. Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering.

Rajneesh

#21. I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.

Robert Pattinson

#22. Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?

Tite Kubo

#23. Fucking lilacs. I'm the only immortal with allergies. I swear.' - Eddie, Crave

J.R. Ward

#24. I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

Brian Cox

#25. Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated.

Frans De Waal

#26. An ambitious, paradoxical world we live in -
of short attention spans
paired with the massive fear
of being forgotten too soon.

Sreesha Divakaran

#27. I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the "moment" and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.

Ansel Adams

#28. Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA.

Francis Collins

#29. To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

John C. Maxwell

#30. I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my gender- women who didn't allow you to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless it fell beneath how they thought about themselves.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting.

Suze Orman

#32. What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.

Ruta Sepetys

#33. Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

Douglas William Jerrold

#34. The fanciful theory that a person's life was etched on their physical form - be it despair, happiness, or in this case sheer depravity - was entirely disproved by Blaine. That, or she already had a huge portrait or herself slowly decaying in the attic.

Tabitha McGowan

#35. I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

Hillary Clinton

#36. Dear Aunt Loretta,
Thank you so much for the awesome pants!
How did you know I wanted that for Christmas?
I love the way the pants look on my legs!
All my friends will be so jealous that I have my very own pants.
Thank you for making this the best Christmas ever!
Sincerely, Greg

Jeff Kinney

#37. Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances. - John Locke

Robert Jackson Bennett