What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' coincidence that they was in… — Theo Engela Copy Share Image
To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in… — Geoffrey Boycott Copy Share Image
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll be firm," I promised Patch, adopting a no-nonsense expression. "No backing down." By now Patch was full-on grinning. He kissed me… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
The political nonsense of network television and the culture of a set and all the problems that that can create, I can… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
It is nonsense that people shopping online in some parts of Europe are unable to access the best deals because of where… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
I have worked for the BBC for a lot of my career and I kind of always did it for the love.… — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
If any single human being is responsible for all this nonsense I've done with my life, it's Ray Harryhausen... In 'Kubo,' you… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
In the end the recrudescence of racism on the right is conservatism's problem to solve, and it has to be solved independently… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more… — Rocky Anderson Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion.… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
