#ludicrous

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it. ↗

— John Conyers

#bush #calling #democratic #democratic party #dubai

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#bras #invention #just #ludicrous #make

The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous. ↗

— Raul Labrador

#borders #claims #close #else #ever

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#absurd #because #came #canvas #everything

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#collapse #could #enter #even #feel

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#career #characters #dictators #enjoyed #exist

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous! ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#away #characters #down #dramatic #driving

I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#asked #concert #cure #i #ludicrous

Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#clean #cost #incentives #intelligent #internalized

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#anything #century #condemned #draw #each