Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make… — Rick Warren 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 idea that there is a difference between East and West is nonsense. You both hand over your card with two hands.… — David Tang Copy Share Image
The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard,… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
Invasion is something I've grown up being quite accustomed to. And then I suppose it becomes a whole lesson in discernment. Who… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow… — Al D'Amato Copy Share Image
Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as… — Joan Frank Copy Share Image
Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Before the bell you fellow your family's name. Carrying the belt doesn't change me as a person. But I want to represent… — Anthony Joshua Copy Share Image
It’s dead obvious that creationism isn’t science, or even bad science. It’s nonsense. But I’ve long stated it’s also bad religion, because… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the… — Tony Blackburn Copy Share Image
A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged… — William James Copy Share Image
Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources.… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Something is going to have to give because, if it doesn't, not only will we get Jacob Rees-Mogg as our prime minister,… — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to… — Jim Bolger Copy Share Image
