Normally during the week between Christmas and New Year I'm slumped in a chair in Birmingham, eating, farting and spouting total nonsense. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being… — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense. — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When you mind your own business you will never get caught up in all the nonsense. — Gee Linder Copy Share Image
It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however,… — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
We Marxists believe that a revolution will also take place in other countries. But it will take place only when the revolutionaries… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
“Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life. That is something to remember when you meet the old classmate who says,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the… — Ann Widdecombe 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
“We'll have to see," Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. "Potio-section..." He looked at… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I've realized that a lot of people come to me because of what's called identity. In the sense of "he's like me"… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,'… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“A joke is by its nature a protest against sense. It is no good attacking nonsense for being successfully nonsensical.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Imagine maintaining 70 brands in a digital world - it is a nonsense. It is better to focus on a fewer, more… — Alain Dehaze Copy Share Image
Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are, Mr. Stark." "Nonsense. I'm fucking brilliant. Or haven't you heard?” — J. Kenner Copy Share Image
It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the… — David Keating Copy Share Image
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself… — Ernest Chapman Copy Share Image
Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
