A Quote by Ben Sidran

In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

Ben Sidran

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Ben Sidran
American - Musician
Born: August 14, 1943

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

Thomas Paine

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

Cheap wine is defined by its price, and it depends on personal spending limits. So for me, any wine under $10 is cheap.

Deborah Harkness

We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot, cheap software, and then this world averages over. There is only one answer to that, and that is to get everyone as close as possible to some form of post-secondary education, it could be vocational, it can be liberal arts, it can be science and technology.

Thomas Friedman

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

Paul Henderson

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

Thomas Jefferson

At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime

Derek Mahon

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

Jay DeFeo

Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.

Peter Drury

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Theodor Adorno

I have a job that requires me to get dressed up more often than if I were in another line of work, but I don't have a lot of indulgences. I like nice wine, and I like sushi, and those things aren't cheap. Well, they can be, but I don't think I'd go for the cheap fish!