Nonsense Quotes · Page 17

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

— Nick Bantock

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people…

— Gene Roddenberry

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

— Anne Carson

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being…

— Margaret of Valois

I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants…

— Nora Ephron

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

— Barry Ritholtz

Normally during the week between Christmas and New Year I'm slumped in a chair in Birmingham, eating, farting and spouting total nonsense.

— Joe Lycett

I seek and I find dead reactions. People kill time being cliche. Play a card but it'll never be a fraction. Feeble…

— Luke Garner

The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense…

— Franz Bardon

Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him.…

— Chris Matthews

I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no…

— Tony Bishop

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same…

— Tom Baker

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in…

— Grover Norquist

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that…

— Isaac Asimov

He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and…

— John McCain

“In an age when designer labels and celebrity names are used to sell everything from cars to lipstick, when meaningless slogans and…

— Siri Hustvedt

I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein-- side by side…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded…

— Georgette Heyer

My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I…

— Vienna Teng

Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and…

— Bruce Bartlett

True to their history, the English are very domineering and have manipulated it in different ways. I wouldn't say that there was…

— Marina Warner

You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into…

— Woody Allen

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

— Anthony Hopkins

Nonsense and common sense are the twins that nourish imagination and creativity.

— Tasneem Hameed

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

— Nick Harkaway

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness…

— Katha Pollitt

The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,'…

— Greg Boyle

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

— Lewis Carroll

I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

— Mike Tyson

When you mind your own business you will never get caught up in all the nonsense.

— Gee Linder

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

— George Orwell

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

— Martin Wolf

“A joke is by its nature a protest against sense. It is no good attacking nonsense for being successfully nonsensical.”

— G.K. Chesterton

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

— Phyllis McGinley

To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself…

— Ernest Chapman

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the…

— David Keating