Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“You know that saying "you couldn't make it up"? It's complete nonsense, of COURSE you could make it up. Otherwise how else… — Ray Daley Copy Share Image
“People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
I originally started it to help me with anxiety & insomnia. It’s already made my life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better & even with my… — Sky Ferreira Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no… — Roger Gale Copy Share Image
“I asked, “When the Rebellions were at its peak doing nonsense, everyone was trying to keep away from the area, yet you… — Drexel Deal Copy Share Image
I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however,… — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
“I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Ive found my way into a life surrounded by food people, which often leads to intensely passionate conversations about nonsense: deep-dives on… — Sohla El-Waylly Copy Share Image
“Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The realization that reason and anti-reason, sense and nonsense, design and chance, consciousness and unconsciousness, belong together as necessary parts of a… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I was told that going to college wouldn't be good for my career, but I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It would be nonsense to try to suggest that somebody who tried to rouse 2,000 people to their feet - which is… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
When a man ends up in the White House who boasts about not having a clue and who says that specialist knowledge… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image