If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The planet is heating; the climate is changing. We know this. We have not just one scientist, or two, but thousands screaming… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
“When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams -… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Demarcating the border between sense and nonsense makes interpretive frames reflexive and therefore serves as a catalyst for exploring the very parameters… — Winfried Menninghaus Copy Share Image
The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well,… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who… — William Henry Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I was always on the outside. It was the worst when I still wanted to be a professor, having to deal with… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There's no story there. You've got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables,… — Triple H Copy Share Image
“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
There is nothing better than standing at a bar, talking nonsense, while sipping a pint of real ale. Give me a pub… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night... we tried to joke but neither could make any sense. We realized that puns… — Marshall Ramsay Copy Share Image
Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last.… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense.… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“It was one of those nonsense things that people said, like “It’s not you, it’s me” and “You’re too good for me.”… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image