Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I was always on the outside. It was the worst when I still wanted to be a professor, having to deal with… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language)… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“Tired of that hermeneutical delirium, the workers turned away from the authorities in Macondo and brought their complaints up to the higher… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Demarcating the border between sense and nonsense makes interpretive frames reflexive and therefore serves as a catalyst for exploring the very parameters… — Winfried Menninghaus Copy Share Image
When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well,… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who… — William Henry Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Every year, the World Economic Forum decides on a theme for its meeting of the world's elite in Davos, Switzerland. Usually, it's… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can’t have it either. It affects the babies in utero.” “Nonsense,” he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
As for the criticism we receive, you know, even Mr. [Donald] Trump's team criticize us. For instance, one of the participants or… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it,… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is… — James Alison Copy Share Image
“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters,… — Jonathan Barnes Copy Share Image