We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked… — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Well, I do call that a lot of nonsense. I can understand a man wishing he hadn’t married and trying to get… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The planet is heating; the climate is changing. We know this. We have not just one scientist, or two, but thousands screaming… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
I'm married to a nurse, and she is really, really ardent that - in screenplays or movies that I've worked on, that… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, I don't mention my sister too much in my columns because she nags me and says, 'Don't make me look… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“More than that, these adverts sell a dubious world view. They sell the idea that science is not about the delicate relationship… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I never used to watch horror films because I was a nervous type. I believed all the publicity about The Exorcist when… — Simon Boswell Copy Share Image
Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure,… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus],… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
“But love – don’t we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It’s only a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this,… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
When Donald Trump attacks the trade deals, which have helped to gut the American working class, it's very powerful, even though his… — Allan Nairn Copy Share Image
An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. I'm not worried if I'm using four different… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image