Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
After I saw how badly animals were treated to en up in our plates, how bad it was for our health and… — Georges Laraque Copy Share Image
Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes,… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
When we started reading books to Raffi, I included some Russian ones. A friend had handed down a beautiful book of Daniil… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
“Said by Colin the dragon: "It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“But there is no sole person for another's heart. Souls cannot be broken and then completed by another. That's not healthy, nor… — Leanna Renee Hieber Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid it's not nonsense," Genghis said, shaking his turbaned head and continuing his story. "As I was saying before the little… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him.… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life… — Ike Barinholtz Copy Share Image
Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully,… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
One of the reasons Britain escaped the poisonous nonsense of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia is the sheer, absolute, middle-of-the-road, tedious banality… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer,… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
To the extent that the academy is producing people who are talking utter nonsense, and imagining that it is sophisticated and enlightened… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“When people get into their 30s plus "boyfriend" sounds weird...if you really think about it. Instead, I think we should universally start… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
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