Risible Quotes

#1. The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Arabella Weir

#2. The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.

Nick Harkaway

#3. risible. In the Community, none

Dean Koontz

#4. If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

Antony Gormley

#5. Fortunately, I find that if a situation is funny or risible enough, I tend to bleed less profusely.

J.D. Salinger

#6. The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

Samuel Johnson

#7. March against size-zero models, risible pornography, lap-dancing clubs, and Botox. We don't need to

Caitlin Moran

#8. I can never quite decide whether the anti- Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister ... It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.

Thomas Sowell

#10. Much as I'd enjoyed Sir Collin's bantering and easy ways, as much as I liked his goodness and generosity, my feelings for him weren't yet deep enough to take something so extraordinary.

Jody Hedlund

#11. A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

Gayle Forman

#12. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.

Anne Lamott

#13. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

Stephen Covey

#14. You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

Thomas Hardy

#15. That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.

Jon Hurwitz

#16. If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

Robbie Fowler

#17. I had made my reputation on integrity.

Edward Brooke

#18. Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

Alexander McQueen

#19. I do believe the shotguns helped them accept this reality sooner than they might have otherwise.

Megan McCafferty

#20. Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

Seth Godin

#21. No matter how many times you have slipped or fallen, rise up ... You are stronger than you realize.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#22. Especially students. I love to turn them on to a story. Some of them have to go see me as an assignment, like kids from the schools in New York will go to the Y. I want them to know why I love this and why they should too.

T.C. Boyle