“In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.” MenInspirationalMayWinningFunToo MuchLifetimeRidiculousOld ManEmphasisHere I Am Author:Bear Bryant
“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.” InspirationalMeanArtEndsMovingArtistLiteratureSpeakGoalRolesMankindReaderTasksRidiculousIronyPatheticSpecialistsCarried AwayPathos Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."” IfsInspirationalChildrenLittlesHelpingHandsWaitingPoorSkyChangedCreaturesHundredConstantRidiculousFairyNinetyEighty Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces
“Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.” InspirationalDoeRunningFunnyLaughingRiskLaughterRidiculousConsistentlyHumour And Laughter Author:Vaclav Havel