But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“What can be the meaning of that emphatic exclamation?" cried he. "Do you consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If we allow responsible management of our forests and end the nonsense litigation from radical environmental groups, we can get our timber… — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
I wish I'd walked out of 'The Tourist' with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. I said to the missus after two minutes,… — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media and their voice is there, people can… — Craig David Copy Share Image
The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
Gibberish rap is - I freestyle all the time, just hangin' out with friends. And sometimes when I'm freestyling, I'll lose my… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room,… — Glenn Turner Copy Share Image
Probably my English teacher because she got me into writing instead of just answering the question. I used to hand in homework… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I rang Brian [Mulroney] up. I said, "What's this bloody nonsense. You've got a wheat trade with Iraq and you won't come… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I don't usually get star struck, but I met Sir Paul McCartney randomly on Sunset Boulevard a few years ago, and I… — Sterling Knight Copy Share Image
The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real'… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“I am sure you have heard that appearance doesn't matter and that it's what's on the inside that counts. Well that of… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. ... (They are of the same… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only… — David Small Copy Share Image
“Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There's so much nonsense tossed around about L.A. and how horrible it is and 'don't go out there' and all that stuff.… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute… — David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes Copy Share Image