Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life… — Ike Barinholtz Copy Share Image
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the… — Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Copy Share Image
“Is it nonsense," I asked, managing to suppress what I felt—"is it nonsense when he says that the tassets and cuissards of… — Robert William Chambers Copy Share Image
You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
I don't care about Oscars. It's such self-aggrandizing nonsense. It's a way to manipulate people into believing that their choices are what's… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
You may be right. I think it was round about Christmas when I got my Welsh dragon tattoo.” At that, Tessa had… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
People whose views are swung when you get into these ridiculous debates - I think they're all nonsense. You've got to have… — Nigel Pearson Copy Share Image
I'm open to anyone who can or has demonstrated that they can effectively market and distribute with the best. It wouldn't hurt… — Vantile Whitfield Copy Share Image
The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is… — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
I hear you younger people saying how many friends they have on the Internet. That's nonsense. That's not friends, that's acquaintances. The… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
The Samba requires that the lower part of the body does all of the work but the upper body has absolutely no… — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim,… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Live in constant gratitude. No matter what the condition today, no matter how dark, how dreary, how painful and difficult…to day is… — James Arthur Ray Copy Share Image
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
When you come from within the industry, you are better prepared for the industry. For example, you see your family deal with… — Arjun Kapoor Copy Share Image
I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour"… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
“Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldygrak. Isn’t it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
