You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years.

I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

I hope there are some who will brave ridicule for the sake of common justice to half the people in the world.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

The idea of insider information to me is almost, like, laughable.

I'm a believer in challenging myself and overcoming challenges by doing things I've never done before.

A bad day never hath a good night.

It would be a very good thing for all involved - the country, an independent judiciary, and the Left itself - if liberals take a page from David von Drehle and their own judges of the New Deal era, kick their addiction to constitutional litigation, and return to their New Deal roots of trying to win elections rather than lawsuits.