Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

David Pogue

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

Bear Grylls

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Jane Austen

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Barbara Kingsolver

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Laura Bush

I think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous comment, that's what I think.

Lord Shaftesbury

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Anais Nin

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

Donald Judd

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Barack Obama

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Rob Lowe

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

Kathy Sierra

That was quite an experience right there, ... We went to New York the year after it happened. It was weird, because there was just like a big ol' gap in between all these buildings and you could tell where the damage had been done.

Margo Jonker

That was a great swing by Crews. I thought we were going to get right back into the game after that. It seemed building from that, we just weren't energized.

Justin Huber

That was a great start to the game, it really got everyone up from the beginning. We just kept building on our play from that point on.

Chris Laplante

We have all of the original plans, about 130 sheets of plans, that we used in designing and building the Texas State Capitol Building.

Paul Watson

We have also made the decision to have only 1 per cent of the fund invested in fixed interest. Instead, we use investments like the RG Casey building in Canberra to deliver a higher annuity style income for rents for long periods.

Jim Balsillie

We have already seen significant customer interest in this powerful combination, and we look forward to building on our relationship with Palm.

Robert Green Ingersoll

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

Perry Poe

We are planning to have extra chairs up front, but expect there will be some people standing.

William Turner

Ultimately, it's the (department) chairs and deans who are accountable in hiring and promoting people.

Bill Gates

Started from the chair hop now we here.

Dorothy Thompson

We actually purchased those real tall tables and chairs like you see at Starbucks.

Louis MacNeice

Time was away and somewhere else, / There were two glasses and two chairs / And two people with one pulse.

Ani Difranco

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

Jonathan Collegio

The Democrats could play musical chairs in Illinois and get a better lineup than they have now.

Kevin Kerr

The debate over should oil be at $60 or $80 is like a debate over rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.