Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the end the recrudescence of racism on the right is conservatism's problem to solve, and it has to be solved independently… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me. Their names are engraved on empty graves, their books are dummies, they are… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense,… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
As the field of coaching finds its way to becoming a mature discipline, James Flaherty's dedicated field research, study, and sound articulation… — Richard Strozzi-Heckler Copy Share Image
It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he… — George Gallup Copy Share Image
Jerry Sloan was a guy that I always respected, but I thought he was mean. Like, he was a guy that was… — Penny Hardaway Copy Share Image
Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine -… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may… — Lawrence Bossidy Copy Share Image
“I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part , a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Who cares what the state thinks about your relationship? They're giving you tax breaks and this and that - it's just nonsense.… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a… — Arsenio Hall Copy Share Image
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
If I can, in any way, give people the courage to say, 'Actually, no, the nonsense stops right here,' then I want… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to… — Craig David Copy Share Image
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
