“It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,” I said, “that makes it damn nearly impossible for me to say anything. I’ve… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“[I]n many ways nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth. Anyone can believe in the truth. To believe in… — Mencius Moldbug Copy Share Image
I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
“he wrote of these things and utter nonsense in the same breath, and this made me dismiss the book. Until I finished… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
I don't want to be responsible for messing up someone. I don't want to be responsible for that, because the things that… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night... we tried to joke but neither could make any sense. We realized that puns… — Marshall Ramsay Copy Share Image
What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense.… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough not to grow up in Hollywood, so I feel that was a blessing. Being surrounded by nature and… — Alison Eastwood 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
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image
You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.'… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating...… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“It was one of those nonsense things that people said, like “It’s not you, it’s me” and “You’re too good for me.”… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last.… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There's no story there. You've got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables,… — Triple H Copy Share Image
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
There is nothing better than standing at a bar, talking nonsense, while sipping a pint of real ale. Give me a pub… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“You know that saying "you couldn't make it up"? It's complete nonsense, of COURSE you could make it up. Otherwise how else… — Ray Daley Copy Share Image
A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams -… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image