Best 246 quotes in «nonsense quotes» category

I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

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.

I have not yet begun to defile myself.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense.

My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense.

People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute 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 avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.