#laughable

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! ↗

— John Green

#complaining #funny #graduation #humor #john-green

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous. ↗

— Vincent Schiavelli

#bond #dangerous #dies #dr #had

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#believe #feelings #i #laughable #seriously

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor. ↗

— Linda Gray

#had #humor #i #laughable #me

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#almost #archaic #because #harmless #incendiary

So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and then another one next to it. "So why wouldn't you want to join the ranks of the ridiculed? ↗

— Justina Chen

#artists #laughable #memorable-works #pushing-the-limits #ridicule

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humorous #ironic #irony #laughable #change

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#fault #laughable #laughter #only #vanity

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#clearly #laughable #men #more #nothing

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe. ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#i #laugh #laughable #while #will