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ridiculous
«There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.»
Author: Josef Skvorecky
| About:
Books,
Perfection
| Keywords:
exception, fall short, fall short of, influenced, ridiculous, The Age, weaknesses
«Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
damnable, expense, momentary, position, ridiculous, The Pleasure
«Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.»
Author: Sophia Loren
(Actress)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
absolutely, follows, precedes, preceding, ridiculous, the Wash, washing, wash out
«The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
addiction, addictions, available, drug, drug addiction, effect, exposure, illness, intoxicant, intoxicants, psychological, ridiculous, somehow, speaking, totally
«She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
at present, composedly, entries, entry, good part, hole, mouse, paw, pawing, paws, ridiculous, sentinel, sentinels, sits, tuck, tucked
«Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.»
Author: Mitch Hedberg
(Comedian)
| About:
Fashion,
Funny,
Self-Awareness
| Keywords:
ass, beret, bet, ridiculous, wake up, wearing, you bet
«There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
one-step, ridiculous, sublime, the sublime
«There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Emotion
| Keywords:
ceased, emotions, ridiculous
«New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let 'em be unmanly) yet are follow'd»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
customs, nay, ridiculous, unmanly
