Nonsense Quotes · Page 21

It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense.

— Craig David

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

— Hafez

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

— Jeremy Bentham

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

— Abraham Lincoln

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

— Anonymous

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

— Anthony Eden

You go through so much with the heartache, the pain, the nonsense, the games, and it's easy to lose sight of the…

— Demetria McKinney

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

— Jean Kerr

Before the bell you fellow your family's name. Carrying the belt doesn't change me as a person. But I want to represent…

— Anthony Joshua

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew…

— David Hume

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with…

— Lewis Carroll

No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow…

— Al D'Amato

Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as…

— Joan Frank

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to…

— Jim Bolger

I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can,…

— Arnold Newman

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express…

— Richard Bach

I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I…

— Stephenie Meyer

“What do you think?" shouted Razumihin, louder than ever, "you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths…

— Lewis Carroll

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new…

— Anonymous

“I think nonsense raises two human urges. One: to be playful, be curious and curiouser, and 2: to make meaning out what…

— Ali Smith

Be as pissed off as you want to be. Don’t hold back because you think it’s unladylike or some such nonsense. We…

— Jessica Valenti

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

— Malcolm Forbes

The play of Hillary Clinton is to do exactly what she did with Whitewater, with the conspiracy theories about Vince Foster's suicide,…

— Thomas Roberts

“Above he could not stop half way, that was nonsense not only in business but always and everywhere. ”

— Franz Kafka

The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

— John Green

The first 'Interdimensional Cable' episode is amazing because it's filled with such absolute drunken nonsense.

— Justin Roiland

“1. Optimize potential. 2. Facilitate empowerment. 3. Implement visioning. 4. Strategize priorities. 5. Augment core structures.”

— Connie Willis

It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most…

— Harold Brodkey

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

— Oliver Goldsmith

You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.

— Byron Dorgan

“...It's like trying to fit an octopus into a pair of tuxedo pants. And not a plain octopus at that, but an…

— Arkady Strugatsky

Silly trends don't last long. A lot of this nonsense that pops up, I don't even really pay attention because it'll be…

— Anthony Bourdain

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

— Bill Drayton

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

— Sepp Blatter

It does not make sense to exclude nonsense from senses. Dont forget that most of the inventions were initially included in this…

— Tasneem Hameed

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

— Henry Ford

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

— Harmony Korine