Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
Kin Hubbard

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
David Ogden Stiers

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Bobby Knight

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
Gerald Brenan

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.
Helen Thomas

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas B. Macaulay

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.
Jackie Stewart

We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.
Andy Richter

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!
Ryan Phillippe

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

What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.
Steve Buscemi

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
Norman MacCaig

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?
Gilles Duceppe

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
Bruce Springsteen

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.
Joel Coen

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.
Danny Elfman

You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?
Cat Deeley