Best 246 quotes in «nonsense quotes» category

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

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.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Exported revolution is nonsense.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

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.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.

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.

If you can believe in God you can believe in a witch, it is the same package. If you can believe in one kind of nonsense, you can believe in all kinds of nonsense.

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

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.

If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

I got this bad allergy - I'm allergic to bullshit.

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

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

I have not yet begun to defile myself.

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

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 must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

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

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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

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

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

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.

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.

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

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

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!

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

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

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

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?

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