#idic

... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#ridiculous #dreams

I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#eating #enough #fluids #folks #getting

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England. ↗

— John Corigliano

#automatically #because #british #composer #england

Mitt Romney saying that Barack Obama gets an F is one of the most ridiculous things that he has said in this race. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#barack obama #gets #mitt #mitt romney #most

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

#got #humour #look #pretty #ridiculous

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#beverage #coarse #favorite #intellectual #naturally

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. ↗