#idic

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#genres #now #purity #ridiculous #rigorous

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#around #back #community #even #knee

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#business #cannes #costume #humiliate #i

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#chronic #console #finds #fresh #grief

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. ↗

— Hu Shih

#another #beauty #become #cornerstone #cultural

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry. ↗

— John Shimkus

#dependent #find #foreign #foreign oil #import

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#first #fool #last #ridicule

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things. ↗

— Hannah Simone

#grow #grow up #like #many #me

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

#book #even #every #everyone #exception

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#ball #band #bomb #carry #certain