Quotes of: Nonsense Keyword

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'

Terry Zwigoff

Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.

Victor J. Stenger

...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

Cry Of The Wolf

There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.

Robert Dallek

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

Anne of the Island

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Liberalism

To be a great writer, you must be nomadic. I’d recommend the hunter/gatherer lifestyle for anybody serious about being nonsensical.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Sometimes I get advice from the fictional characters in my dreams. Sometimes It’s good, and sometimes it’s nonsensical.

This Book Has No Title

In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.

This Book Has No Title

I could still box your ears.” “Nonsense,” he scoffed. “You couldn’t reach that high.

The Winter Bride

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.

When the Tripods Came

Eleven out of ten people surveyed said they appreciate nonsense. 

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

Rachael Leigh Cook

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Richard Dawkins

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

Tavis Smiley

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

Margaret Atwood

In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.

Noam Chomsky

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Anne Sullivan

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Oliver Goldsmith