Best 246 quotes in «nonsense quotes» category

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

When Donald Trump attacks the trade deals, which have helped to gut the American working class, it's very powerful, even though his solutions are nonsense. And Hillary Clinton can't really defend it, because that's part of the life's work of her and her - of her and her husband.

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables) or Panchama is sheer nonsense. It is roguish to say so. It is a big hoax played on us.

Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense?

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

A bit of nonsense never hurt anyone ...

ABSENCE, n. That which "makes the heart grow fonder" — of absence. Absence of mind is the cerebral condition essential to success in popular preaching. It is sometimes termed lack of sense.

Aerodynamically there isn’t much you can do to enhance your Beetle’s handling. The Porsche style whale tale – um, tail is just that – a load of nonsense. It does no aerodynamic spoiling at all except to spoil your car ergonomically, and quite frankly, it looks like crap. It goes with blue LED lights under the car and (yuk) fur on the dashboard.

After an hour the score was: Quancita—34 Radiz—51 Sally—froglegs Perla—9 and 21 Me— hoo-hoo-hooo

A group of us were downtown on Bay Street. It was some twelve to fifteen of us with nothing to do. We had just been in a fight with some Kemp Road fellas. It really wasn’t anything to talk about, because we quickly ran them off Bay Street. Feeling pumped up about what we had just done and looking for more action, we started running in the middle of Bay Street, screaming and shouting ‘Rebellions!” and ‘Raiders for life!”, making a real nuisance of ourselves. About nine of us were arrested by the police and charged with public terror and disorderly behavior. So in fact, we were given our gang name by the police, and Milton Street became known as the Public Terrorist Rebellions. Galen ‘Ninja’ Nordelus former leader of the Public Terrorist Rebellions through Milton Street.

A sensible speaker is a slave to making sense.

As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.

But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.

But then, not long after, in another article, Loftus writes, "We live in a strange and precarious time that resembles at its heart the hysteria and superstitious fervor of the witch trials." She took rifle lessons and to this day keeps the firing instruction sheets and targets posted above her desk. In 1996, when Psychology Today interviewed her, she burst into tears twice within the first twenty minutes, labile, lubricated, theatrical, still whip smart, talking about the blurry boundaries between fact and fiction while she herself lived in another blurry boundary, between conviction and compulsion, passion and hyperbole. "The witch hunts," she said, but the analogy is wrong, and provides us with perhaps a more accurate window into Loftus's stretched psyche than into our own times, for the witch hunts were predicated on utter nonsense, and the abuse scandals were predicated on something all too real, which Loftus seemed to forget: Women are abused. Memories do matter. Talking to her, feeling her high-flying energy the zeal that burns up the center of her life, you have to wonder, why. You are forced to ask the very kind of question Loftus most abhors: did something bad happen to her? For she herself seems driven by dissociated demons, and so I ask. What happened to you? Turns out, a lot. (refers to Dr. Elizabeth F. Loftus)