Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing,… — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“You alarm me!' said the King. 'I feel faint—Give me a ham sandwich!' On which the Messenger, to Alice's great amusement, opened… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person -… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms… — Lord Mountbatten Copy Share Image
I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“What do you think?" shouted Razumihin, louder than ever, "you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dean did not want to see anyone right now, but if he had to make a list of people he did want… — T.F. Lince Copy Share Image
To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Yours is much worse than Eastern! You’ve slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I don't mind being around a whole bunch of people, but when there's a whole bunch of nonsense going on around me,… — Minkah Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
A fool can never be made to question his own wisdom. And George Groves is very foolish. He believes his own nonsense.… — Carl Froch Copy Share Image
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Bicycles should not be insured or registered, and cycling proficiency should not be subject to a test. That's just weak-kneed nonsense from… — James May Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to… — Ron Bloom Copy Share Image
“I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead, is a human one. It would be wonderful… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Women all think that if a guy likes you he will come and talk to you. That's nonsense - 'actually the opposite… — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
People are asking that question again if Max is being too tough on his equipment, but that's complete nonsense. He can't overdrive,… — Jos Verstappen Copy Share Image
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
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.… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
