Nonsense famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
-- Alfred Bester -
Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
-- Alfred Bester -
At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
-- Andrew Young -
It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.
-- Angela Merkel -
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.
-- Ann Coulter -
I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.
-- Ann Coulter -
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.
-- Anton du Beke -
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
-- Aristotle -
I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.
-- Arnold Newman -
Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
-- Arthur Frederick Saunders -
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
-- Ben Horowitz -
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
-- Bill Drayton -
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
-- Bill Haywood -
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
-- Bill Mollison -
When theres ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was well, thats nonsense! so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.
-- Burt Rutan -
I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
-- C. L. R. James -
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
I love people who have such passion for complete nonsense.
-- Chelsea Handler -
Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.
-- Cliff Morgan -
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.
-- Clifford Truesdell -
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.
-- Daniil Kharms -
Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.
-- David Bohm -
Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.
-- Doc Holliday -
Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.
-- Dustin Clare -
I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
-- Edie Sedgwick -
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.
-- Edward Gorey -
Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.
-- Enoch Powell -
I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
-- Errol Flynn -
It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
-- Francis Crick -
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
-- Franz Kafka -
The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.
-- Frederic Chopin -
I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.
-- Gary Kemp -
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
-- Georg Solti -
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
-- George Eliot -
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
-- George Mason -
To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
-- Gerrit Smith -
There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.
-- Gregory Galloway -
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
-- Gunter Grass -
I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.
-- Harmony Korine -
Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
-- Harold Ford, Jr. -
A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.
-- Harriet Morgan -
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
-- Horace Walpole -
People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.
-- Hubert Butler -
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
-- Ian Frazier -
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes
-- Isaac Barrow -
It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
-- Ivan Turgenev -
Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up.
-- J. L. Austin -
Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.
-- James Gould Cozzens -
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
-- Jane Austen -
Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.
-- Jason Statham -
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
-- Jeremy Bentham -
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
-- Jim Harrison -
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
-- Jim Henson -
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
-- Jim Wallis -
I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.
-- Johannes Kepler -
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
-- John Dryden -
Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists.
-- John Lennox -
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
-- John Lydon -
If you love something, Let it go, If it comes back it's yours, That's how you know kno-o-ow Nonsense, Christina Aguilera! I say, 'If you love it, file it away under "Things I love". If it's required at a later date, you'll know exactly where it i-i-i-is.
-- Jon Richardson -
The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.
-- Josh Radnor -
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
-- Jules de Goncourt -
The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.
-- Kathy Acker -
Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman
-- Laurie R. King -
It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss -
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.
-- Lewis Carroll -
Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.
-- Lewis Carroll -
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein -
All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
-- M. F. Husain -
Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.
-- Manfred von Richthofen -
I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
-- Manolo Blahnik -
There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.
-- Margaret Thatcher -
Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.
-- Marilynne Robinson -
It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense
-- Mark Twain -
Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
-- Mary Ann Shaffer -
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
-- Max Beerbohm -
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It's all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.
-- Michele Bachmann -
I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.
-- Neil Postman -
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.
-- Nick Bantock
