Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
General Flynn said all the talk about the connections between Trump and his campaign in Russia are nonsense. — Shannon Bream Copy Share Image
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that… — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand… But until… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And I think that a lot of people in their 20s go through that thing of, this life that I think that… — Phil Dunster Copy Share Image
I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
“Old boy," said Grimes, "you're in love." "Nonsense!" "Smitten?" said Grimes. "No, no." "The tender passion?" "No." "Cupid's jolly little darts?" "No."… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The young look up to me as their feeder, said Alex. Well, they can go look for another trough. I'm through with… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the… — Giles Fraser Copy Share Image
Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics. — Rick Wright Copy Share Image
Now, I have a confession to make. I hate warm-ups with a passion. Worst part of the whole day. Nonsense, they are. — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Barring wacky nonsense, I'm going to end my career in a Ring of Honor ring. And that to me is fine. It's… — Christopher Daniels Copy Share Image
If you want to be famous, you can be. You can go to all the things you are invited to. But I… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.' — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
