#ridiculous

I can tie a cherry stem into a knot with my tongue. Now, if only I could do the same with my shoelaces, I wouldn’t have to banana pudding my way to success.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #cherry #knot #nonsense #ridiculous

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

— Gerald Brenan

#aware #bad #being #confess #fear

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. ↗

— David Byrne

#bear #cannot #everything #get #help

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. ↗

— Emile Zola

#connected #fate #fear #greater #greater importance

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. ↗

— Albert Camus

#born #corner #deeds #door #great

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#custom #dancing #learn #made #man

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#only #ridiculous #road #step #sublime

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#get #lot #me #movies #other

My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility! ↗

— Kate Winslet

#british #call #compliment #embarrassed #enormous

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#believed #could #curious #handling #how