Nonsense Quotes · Page 16

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

“Here, and it goes on to appear now, she comes, a peacefugle, a parody's bird, a peri potmother, a pringlpik in the…

— James Joyce

I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.

— Zach Braff

Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they…

— Wanda Coleman

If I can't understand something, then it's probably nonsense.

— Anonymous

“He shook his head. “I can’t decide if it’s genius or madness.” “Maybe it’s a little bit of both,” said Nancy.”

— Seanan McGuire

As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by…

— Nick Lowe

Every year, the World Economic Forum decides on a theme for its meeting of the world's elite in Davos, Switzerland. Usually, it's…

— Richard Quest

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

Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.

— David Gay

Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified…

— J. Allen Hynek

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

— Franz Kafka

There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got…

— Robert Dallek

I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little…

— Kathy Griffin

Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny…

— Edward Gorey

Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate…

— Anonymous

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem…

— F. L. Lucas

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

— Vernon Howard

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

— Angela Merkel

We don't see a lot of LGBTQ representation in period dramas because there was so much shame around it at the time.…

— Sophie Rundle

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village;…

— Anonymous

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

— Robert Lloyd

Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

— Langston Hughes