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
If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
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
The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
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
What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. What did he die of? Bunbury? Oh, he was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked… — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense. — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Films like 'Jungle' are rare. It was a powerful role and in the future I would like to be associated with such… — Kashmira Shah Copy Share Image
It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Because the job is still really exciting, and I still get nervous on the first day of shooting. But all the nonsense… — Pollyanna McIntosh Copy Share Image
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. — Richard Dawkins 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
