Nonsense Quotes · Page 21

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Nonsense,” said the witcher. “And what’s more, it doesn’t rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

— Libba Bray

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

— Bernard Marcus

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all…

— Roger Deakins

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense.

— Walter E. Williams

“What have you done what have I done, like an echo in a cave that reduces all to nonsense.”

— Truman Capote

Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul…

— John G. Lake

I can’t have it either. It affects the babies in utero.” “Nonsense,” he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder.…

— Richelle Mead

It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very…

— Frederick Lenz

The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time…

— Penelope Lively

“That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try…

— Seanan McGuire

Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a…

— Charlie Munger

It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of…

— Charles Saatchi

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

I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these…

— Naomi Wolf

For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be…

— Rajneesh

People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order,…

— Richard Rohr

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

— Anonymous

Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby…

— Thomas Szasz

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,…

— Alan Watts

If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders…

— Libba Bray

Your life changes after the limelight is on you. Sometimes, it is easy to get caught up in the nonsense.

— Shibani Dandekar

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will…

— Anonymous

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

— Ann Coulter

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

— Maj Sjowall

They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

— Frederick Lenz

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and…

— Dr. Seuss

“Holy’ is a word used to conceal a great deal of nonsense,” Blasphet said. “If we disregard the evidence of our senses,…

— James Maxey

Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

— Charles Spurgeon

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the…

— Murray Rothbard

Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must…

— Swami Vivekananda

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

— Edie Sedgwick

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

— Horace

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion,…

— Tavis Smiley

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

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

— David Mamet

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

— Linton Kwesi Johnson