Nonsense Quotes · Page 17

“People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“Most salesmen are no-nonsense guys. But I’m not like them. I’m the #1 nonsense salesman in all of Camelot.”

— Jarod Kintz

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

— Errol Flynn

Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and…

— Anonymous

Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

— Chrissie Hynde

Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

— Hedi Slimane

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

Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because…

— Frederick Lenz

I think Steve King is absolutely wrong and I just hope that we can try to reach higher ground, because when you…

— Steve King

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per…

— John Crowe Ransom

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought…

— Albert Einstein

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone. There's a nice sense…

— Dustin Clare

I don't think it's people's utterances that limit the writing. It's the activity itself. It's actually pretty hard to convey to someone…

— Tim Winton

Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to…

— Peter Bergen

Because the job is still really exciting, and I still get nervous on the first day of shooting. But all the nonsense…

— Pollyanna McIntosh

The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each…

— Margaret Halsey

Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And…

— Elvis Costello

“But there is no sole person for another's heart. Souls cannot be broken and then completed by another. That's not healthy, nor…

— Leanna Renee Hieber

There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot…

— Bertrand Russell

“I'm afraid it's not nonsense," Genghis said, shaking his turbaned head and continuing his story. "As I was saying before the little…

— Lemony Snicket

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

When I pick a story, I'm very much aware of the larger issues that it's illuminating. But one of the things that…

— Katherine Boo

I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they…

— Ayn Rand

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”

— Robert Frost

The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to…

— H. L. Mencken

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation…

— Northrop Frye

“Our own path, whatever we aspire to, will in some ways be defined by the amount of nonsense we are willing to…

— Ryan Holiday

The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.

— Alber Elbaz

“Don't waste any of your precious time or energy on negativity. There's no time for that nonsense.”

— Comic Strip Mama

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

— C. S. Lewis

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

— Michael T. Flynn

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask…

— Federico Fellini

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense. -The Mock Turtle

— Alice In Wonderland

“But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me…

— James Joyce

Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands…

— Nancy Reagan

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

— Warren Buffett

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

— Bret Weinstein

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

— Voltaire