Nonsense Quotes · Page 48

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction…

— Christopher Hitchens

You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found…

— Doron Zeilberger

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours…

— Anonymous

I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work…

— Mike Leigh

[...] to judge from the Internet postings that people have sent me, probably most of what you learned [about me] was nonsense.

— Theodore Kaczynski

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

— William Morris

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him,…

— C. S. Lewis

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense…

— Otto E. Neugebauer

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that…

— Stephen Jay Gould

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have…

— Brandon Sanderson

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

— Sigmar Gabriel

The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens .…

— Woodrow Wilson

I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women…

— Tina Modotti

If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases…

— Malcolm Forbes

I just love well-organized, very serious nonsense.

— Neal Brennan

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

— Dustin Clare

There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He…

— H. L. Mencken

Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said…

— Susanna Clarke

Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him.…

— Chris Matthews

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

— C. S. Lewis

Akshay Kumar is more than a son to me. What I love about him is that there is never a dull moment…

— Dimple Kapadia

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

— Steven Wright

I complained about the gimmicks. All the nonsense and garbage. After a while I just said I would not wrestle with the…

— Bruno Sammartino

“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. ... (They are of the same…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein