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
I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam… — Steven-Elliot Altman 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
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
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. — Bertrand Russell 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
Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I feel like awareness needs to grow. It's becoming a very common thing. I think we have a very strong NHS and… — John Newman Copy Share Image
“The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Worrying about your costar getting the best of things is childish. Absolute nonsense. All its does is breed ulcers. — Robert Fuller Copy Share Image
There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Sense isn’t democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ? — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed. — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
