I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake… — Charlotte Bronte 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
Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?' — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore. — Ariana Madix Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I was told that going to college wouldn't be good for my career, but I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The realization that reason and anti-reason, sense and nonsense, design and chance, consciousness and unconsciousness, belong together as necessary parts of a… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein-- side by side… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I… — Vienna Teng Copy Share Image
He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“In an age when designer labels and celebrity names are used to sell everything from cars to lipstick, when meaningless slogans and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers of the nation of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Forgive me my nonsense as I forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. —Robert Frost” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
We're going to stop looking at Earth from orbit because we don't like what we are seeing and the conclusions that leads… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I only like non-fiction. After 30 pages of fiction, I think: what nonsense are they trying to write. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense. — Frederic Chopin 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
“I don’t think I like American inventions [...] I am quite sure I don’t. I read some American novels lately, and they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
“people live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense. — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
“I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense! — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
![“I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea.” quote by Marguerite Duras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d25/marguerite-duras-2040_books_i-want-to-write-i-ve-already-told-my-mot_1532006.jpg)
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