The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it. — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
House Democrats stand united in our defense of children, seniors, and the disabled, who disproportionately are the largest recipients of SNAP benefits.… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
“Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Bes had indeed put on his ugly outfit. He climbed onto the roof of the limbo and stood there, legs planted, arms… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not… — Anton Chekhov 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
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense. — Hubert Butler Copy Share Image
“Some people will make nonsense excuses to avoid things they have no interest in doing.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After… — Ryan Miller 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
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king.' Nonsense.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
